Re: [squid-users] Failover & Load Balance

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and
> high availablity for squid running in remote locations.

I run my heartbeat connections via crossover cables directly into second
interfaces. You don't want latency creeping up and causing problems. I
wouldn't recommend this....though, theorhetically it would work.
Andrew
>
> eg:
>
> ---[center1]--interstate--[center2]---
>
> center1 and center2 will have independent squid installations. (but each
> will use the other as sibling)
>
> most likely using transparent proxy/wccp/ bridging (which one is better)
> and I would like users connected to center1's squid be fail-overed to
> center2's squid in case center1 goes down. (otherwise, being a
> tranparent proxy, if center1(or 2)'s squid goes down, (for some reason)
> I-net access for that center will fail.
>
> AFAIK, Hearbeat uses serial cables for monitoring, (I may be wrong, the
> last time I read the documentation).
>
> I would appreciate any help in this.
>
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
> Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz
> Neuromancer 18:00:01 up 8:28, 6 users, 1.64, 0.76, 0.54
>

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