Re: [squid-users] load balancing traffic through squid on systems with 2 Internet connections

On Nov 22, 2007 2:16 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On ons, 2007-11-21 at 13:50 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> >
> > > As far as I know, you could do "split access" using
> > > the 'tcp_outgoing_address' method, but you can't
> > > get squid to use it in round-robin manner.
> > >
> > > I might be wrong. :-)
> >
> > I don't think there is, but making squid do that with a small source patch
> > wouldn't be difficult.
>
> But not something I would recommend. Many sites dislikes clients coming
> from more than one IP during the same session. The client IP is often
> embedded in session cookies etc, making the session fail if the IP
> changes.
>

Yes Henrik.
Such sites are identified and there is af firewall rule added to PF in
OpenBSD to route them through the same interface.. But it is not a
problem with majority of the sites.

Thank you so much for the response :-)

Kind Regards

Siju
Received on Wed Nov 21 2007 - 15:05:38 MST