Re: Cascading

He could always go to the devel versions and uce wccp with a cisco router.
Has a couple nice features. Will split the load though by IP not by usage.
Also if both fail it will go direct to the internet. Also is transparent
to the user..

--Matt

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Kendall Lister wrote:

> On 3 Jan 2000, Arslan Ghani wrote:
>
> > Would u plz help me telling that how could we do cascading, that is to
> > use two proxy servers at a time, to do load balancing and provide
> > redundancy.....
>
> You have a lot of flexibility in how you implement this, and as a result
> there isn't really a simple list of steps to follow. You need to set up
> two (or more) Squid servers, preferably each on its own machine for
> simplicity and redundancy. You then need to have them sharing objects, so
> a sibling relationship would make sense. Finally you need to handle
> directing your clients' requests to each machine in a balanced fashion -
> this could be done via some kind of DNS round-robin system, or you could
> use a specific load-balancing router (either software under Linux or a
> separate hardware box). Or you could use one server as a front end to
> receive all the requests, and then have it use each of the redundant
> servers as parents. We used this to solve the problem of having two
> external net links - we used a second Squid box in "parallel" with our
> primary server; it didn't cache anything, but it allowed us to utilise two
> Internet pipes without any messy network level load-balancing on our
> 2.0.x kernel servers.
>
> It strikes me, however, that if you are stuck at the level of "we need
> load balancing - how?", then you're quite likely to have a difficult time
> implementing it without a turn-key solution, which I don't believe exists
> for Squid.
>
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> Kendall Lister, Systems Operator for Charon I.S. - kendall@charon.net.au
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Received on Mon Jan 03 2000 - 23:32:23 MST