Re: [squid-users] persistent or sticky load balancing possible with Squid?

No, Squid do not do such sticky load balancing, but implementing one
should not be too hard once a good specification on how to balance the
load is written.

As part of this specification you need to define connection and user in
terms of HTTP and TCP/IP. Your usage clearly is not the same as TCP
connection.

Regards
Henrik

andre.schneickert@de.transport.bombardier.com wrote:

> I couldn't find an answer in the documentation or the FAQ and also not in the
> mailing list archives, so I post it in here, hoping that someone knows a
> solution:
>
> If you have two parent Squid caches and you do basic load balancing between them
> by using "round-robin" in the cache_peer statement, Squid also alternates
> between the two parents within a single user connection. Meaning, it alternates
> for every object retrieved within the same user connection to the proxy.
>
> Some sites, namely online banking sites, refuse such requests for security
> reasons. They rely on a persistent connection from the same source address.
>
> So, my question is:
>
> How can I configure Squid to do load balancing with the "round-robin" feature,
> but keep a connection running on the same parent proxy? It should just
> load-balance connections, but not requests within a single connection.
Received on Sat Apr 27 2002 - 06:35:49 MDT