Re: [squid-users] High availability based on Squid process

Chris Robertson wrote:
> J. Peng wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:09 AM, BJ Tiemessen <btiemessen@esoft.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Linux LVS works very well for this situtation.
>> We once had 200 squid hosts and use 2 LVS hosts before them.
>> LVS run with DR or Tunneling mode.
>>
>>
>
> Was this in a forward proxy or an acceleration setup?
> If it was a forward set up, given that a lot of SSL sites don't like
> the requesting IP to change (and I assume in anything but a LVS-NAT
> setup the individual Squids make connections from individual real IP
> addresses), how did you go about "encouraging" a client's connections
> towards a single back end? From what I've read, the load balancing
> methods focus on round-robin and least-load. Or do you just SNAT the
> requests Squid makes?
>
> Chris
>

I hate replying to myself, but a little bit of reading would have
prevented me from asking this question in the first place...

http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.ipvsadm.html#DH

Chris
Received on Fri Apr 25 2008 - 23:08:43 MDT