Re: [squid-users] SQUID - Using random IP's

Vapourmike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I currently have a server installed and running Squid 2.6 (via Yum), on my
> box I have a block of 32 IP address's configured for apache, but Squid just
> uses the main IP address (whatsmyip.com), anyway I would like to set SQUID
> up so that it cycles through the IP's randomly, so if I go to whatsmyip.com
> it changes each time I hit refresh (picks one from the list).
>
> Is this possible? Ive seen countless proxies do this before, but unsure on
> how to configure SQUID to do this.

Not at present. There is an open request to get a 'random' ACL created
for Squid.

For now you are stuck with listing the IPs to use individually in
tcp_outgoing_addr and creating some other criteria (such as time of day)
to select the specific sending IP.

Amos

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