[squid-users] Failover and/or load sharing possible with cache_peer?

Hi

Short question: is it possible to implement failover and/or load sharing
with Squid configuration parameters alone when one Squid has two
upstream Squids available as cache_peers (but no direct access to
anything else) and, if so, how?

Longer question: I've got an internal Squid server and two in a DMZ. I'd
like the internal Squid to distribute its request across the two in the
DMZ when both are available and stick to one of them when the other one
fails to respond. I managed to implement failover, but practically all
requests go to only one of the DMZ Squids until it fails (e.g. by my
stopping the daemon) and the internal Squid switches over to the other
one, where it then stays until it also goes away.

Is it possible to do what I want with Squid alone? If so, how?

Cheers,
Tobias
Received on Mon Nov 22 2004 - 00:17:20 MST