Re: [squid-users] Failover & Load Balance

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:37, Venkatesh K wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:00:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng@wdc.com> wrote:
> > Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and
> > high availablity for squid running in remote locations.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> You can use heartbeat for monitoring and changeover. If you want an
> easy way out, check out on www.ultramonkey.org. Serial port is not a
> must. You can check heartbeat over ethernet also.

I'll check this monkey out.

>
> You need to have both servers in one single subnet for heartbeat to
> work for you.

One single subnet. Hmm.. I wonder if it can be done based on the config
I drawn above.

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