Re: [squid-users] Squid and level 4 switch

Ming-Ching Tiew disse na ultima mensagem:
>
> Anyone has experience with level 4 switch ? What is the working
> principle of a level 4 in respect to redirecting web traffic to a cache
> engine ? Does it do dst IP address rewrite ( iptables DNAT ) or
> does it do dst MAC address rewrite ( ebtables dnat ) when redirecting
> traffic to the cache engine ?
>

a level 4 switch should understand up to osi layer 7 what means it can
understand nat and you can use it for loadbalancing the requests to
between several servers

> Can I simulate a level 4 switch behaviour using Linux ? If yes,
> any insight to the necessary ebtables/iptables rules ?
>

it should so and probably you like to have a look also at Linux LVS
project (www.linuxvirtualserver.org)

Michel

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Received on Wed Jul 18 2007 - 04:10:47 MDT