Re: [squid-users] Failover & Load Balance

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 23:10, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and
> > high availablity for squid running in remote locations.
>
> I run my heartbeat connections via crossover cables directly into second
> interfaces. You don't want latency creeping up and causing problems. I
> wouldn't recommend this....though, theorhetically it would work.

In theory.. I think I need to experiment on this then.

Seeing that you're a sys-admin for managed hosting, do you have any tips
on load-balance for multiple thousands of squid users?

What's the likelihood that squid will fail and then users are left w/o
any I-net connections?

> Andrew
> >
> > eg:
> >
> > ---[center1]--interstate--[center2]---
> >
> > center1 and center2 will have independent squid installations. (but each
> > will use the other as sibling)
> >
> > most likely using transparent proxy/wccp/ bridging (which one is better)
> > and I would like users connected to center1's squid be fail-overed to
> > center2's squid in case center1 goes down. (otherwise, being a
> > tranparent proxy, if center1(or 2)'s squid goes down, (for some reason)
> > I-net access for that center will fail.
> >
> > AFAIK, Hearbeat uses serial cables for monitoring, (I may be wrong, the
> > last time I read the documentation).
> >
> > I would appreciate any help in this.
> >
> > --
> > Ow Mun Heng
> > Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz
> > Neuromancer 18:00:01 up 8:28, 6 users, 1.64, 0.76, 0.54
> >

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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
Neuromancer 11:07:06 up 1:45, 6 users, 0.76, 0.54, 0.58