Re: [squid-users] Re: Authentication on a load balanced squid

Hi Henrik,

This is something I've been cosidering for a month or so now, but how do
you go about analyzing the log files?

We use authentication on our caches so we can keep tabs on the amount of
surfing users do and analyse the logs on a per user basis. We tend to
use SQMGRLOG to analyse the files, but I'm unsure as to wheterh I'd be
able to concatenate the files and then run log analysis over them.

Are you aware if this program would be able to (I know this isn't your
problem) or any analysis programs that would be able to cope with log
files having non sequential date stamps?

David

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> As the user authenticates himself on each and every request this is not
> a problem. All you need to make sure is that the browser thinks the two
> proxies are the same hostname.
>
> The simplest approach is using load balancer infront of the proxies
> (linux ipvs is a good one), but even DNS round-robin and other load
> distribution mechanisms works just fine.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
> Pedro Lineu Orso wrote:
> >
> > Hi Henrik,
> >
> > Sorry to borrow you.
> >
> > I need to implement two squids in a load balanced system, and i´d like
> > to ask you if one squid can "ask" to another squid process if the user
> > is authenticate already, and vice-versa ?
> > I am thinking something like Inter Proxy Authentication Protocol
> > (maybe an rfc) :-)
> > Could you help me to start this ?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Pedro Lineu Orso
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 20:00:20 MDT