Re: Optimizing squid

-federico

that sounds like a router thing. I would guess (though i could be wrong
here..since i am not a network engineer).

what whould probably have to happen is the two gateways have to use BGP
(Border Gateway Protocol) to load balance between the two or find the
shortest path out on the internet. Also, your network would have to be
automonous, at least to your ISP..b/c essentially you doing the load
balancing could change the routing tables of your ISP...some ISP's may not
like that. I also think your ISP would have to know that you are load
balancing, b/c outgoing traffic may be load balanced, but the core routers
of your ISP wouldn't know how load balance between your two gateways for
incoming traffic to your site.

i wouldn't think squid could choose between the gateways...but rather the
OS it self could. Does the squid box do routing dynamically? if it
does..it chooses a default gateway...hence requests the your local routers
do not know about would be sent to your default gateway.

maybe having two squid boxes, one on each gateway...each quering each
other..could solve your problem. but i don't know if that would be true
load balancing

-andrew

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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Federico E. Petronio wrote:

>
> My name is Federico Petronio
>
> I work as System administrator at Faculty of Agriculture at The
> University of Buenos Aires.
> I would like to ask you some question regarding squid use optimization.
> First of all, I will describe the scenario:
> We have a machine with squid installed. All the machines in our Faculty
> use this squid to navigate.
> We have two gateways to Internet, so we think squid could chose between
> these two gateways in order to access the URLs required by the users.
>
> Can squid dynamically (and in an intelligent way) chose between
> different gateways ?
>
> Can squid (or any other tool) detect which gateway is the fastest and
> then use it ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Federico Petronio
> petronio@ifeva.edu.ar
> Linux User #129974
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 11:56:26 MST