RE: [squid-users] Failover and/or load sharing possible with cach e_peer?

Sounds like you've defined your parent proxies as "default" instead of
"round-robin". But that's just a guess. To promote load-balancing you can
use the "round-robin" cache_peer directive:

cache_peer parent1.mydomain.net parent 3128 3130 round-robin
cache_peer parent2.mydomain.net parent 3128 3130 round-robin

Or "carp-load-factor" (which you have to compile in to the child):

cache_peer parent1.mydomain.net parent 3128 3130 carp-load-factor=0.7
cache_peer parent2.mydomain.net parent 3128 3130 carp-load-factor=0.3

Both of the above methods can cause problems with sites that are expecting a
one client, one IP address relationship. You might want to look into WCCP:

http://www.sublime.com.au/squid-wccp/
and
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html#ss17.13

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Reckhard [mailto:jester71@gmx.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:17 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [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 - 11:09:47 MST