Re: [SQU] significance of tcp_outgoing_address?

tcp_outgoing_address selects the source address Squid is using for it's
connections. Sometimes if you have a Squid server with multiple IP's you
always want it to use one specific IP for outgoing connections
irregardless of which service they try to contact. Without it, the OS
will select the "closest" IP to the server being contacted..

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
M. Yu wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone explain the significance of using any other value than 0.0.0.0 in
> tcp_outgoing_address?  In my setup, I have 2 providers 1 of which I use
> solely for my proxy.  My server has 2 NICs one of which is 192.168.0.1 and
> the other is 192.168.1.1.  My clients are on the 192.168.0.1 network.
> Currently, I use
> 
> http_port 192.168.0.1:3128
> tcp_outgoing_address 19.168.1.1
> 
> My proxy server does not have ip forwarding enabled and the default (route)
> uses the 192.168.0.1 interface.  Everything works fine except for squid
> being sluggish (refer to my previous e-mail asking for hardware
> suggestions).  I just thought of asking if I could still use 0.0.0.0 as
> tcp_outgoing_address in this case (I assume that 0.0.0.0 translates into
> default route) and what cases exist wherein I could not.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> M .Yu
> 
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