Re: round robin services

eric wrote:
>
> in the FAQ it talks about:
>
> The Squid redirector can make one accelerator act as a single front-end
> for multiple servers. If you need to move parts of your filesystem from
> one server to another, or if separately administered HTTP servers should
> logically appear under a single URL hierarchy, the accelerator makes the
> right thing happen.
>
> but it never explains how to do this. i am attempting to load balance
> between multiple machines, and haven't found anything that works.

This part of the FAQ does not exacly talk about load balancing. It talks
about when you have multiple servers carrying different content, and
want to make them all appear as a single server.

To load balance between different backend servers you use a redirector
which rewrites the URL to point to different backend servers based on
round-robin, random or whatever distribution mechanism you want.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker