Multihost Squid?

Peter Olsson writes:
> Hello!
>
> I wonder how Squid behaves in a multihost environment?
>
> Do I run one Squid or several Squids?
>
> How do they interact? Can they take advantage of each others caches
> or will I end up with lots of redundant information?

The way I read the comments in squid's config file, you can configure
that. I. e. you can have a group of sibling squids that forward requests
to each other without redundant storage.

Of course this is a tradeoff of storage requirements against network
traffic.

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