Re: [squid-users] Failover & Load Balance

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:36, Bin Liu wrote:
> If you want failover & load balance, WCCP is strongly recommended.
I'll have to read up more on WCCP, which was previously a cisco
proprietry code or algo or something.

I just bought the O'Reilly book - Squid: the Definitive Guide. (But
unfortunately it's doesn't go into load-balancing)

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> On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:10:16 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <ow.mun.heng@wdc.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Ow Mun Heng
> > Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz
> > Neuromancer 11:09:18 up 1:47, 6 users, 0.51, 0.46, 0.54
> >
> >

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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
Neuromancer 14:41:50 up 5:20, 5 users, 1.14, 0.58, 0.41