Re: [squid-users] Use of tcp_outgoing_address

Mark A Lewis wrote:

> I will be setting up a squidnt machine with 2 interfaces. Each with its
> own gateway on its respective network and the "bottom" having the
> lower/preferred metric. I would like to use tcp_outgoing_address to send
> squid traffic out the "top" gateway but have all other traffic continue
> to use the "bottom" gateway. Does anyone know if it will use the default
> gateway configured for that interface or try to use the normal default
> gateway. The basic goal here is to force websurfing traffic to use only
> the cheap/slow bandwidth. I won't have a chance to set this up and test
> it for a little while and I am just trying to figure out if this is a
> lost cause.

Not sure how NT manages advanced routing..

Most OS:es just use one of the gateways according to the route table
(see the route command) for all traffic unless you configure policy
based routing in the OS to select gateway based on the source address
etc..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Feb 22 2003 - 04:35:28 MST