RE: Bandwidth and load sharing

I will like to hear about other solutions, using less computers.

The solution I was able to come with was not with 2 but 3 computers since
sibling is valid only for data on the cache.
I do have one computer for the users proxy that have two parents, each one
to the different internet providers.

On the computer that is being used as the proxy, the relationship with the
other proxies is setup as parent with closest-only option, and also has ICMP
enable during configure.

cache_peer proxy1 parent 3128 3130 closest-only
cache_peer proxy2 parent 3128 3130 closest-only

This will give some balance bandwidth since it will retrieve the data from
the best possible connection at the time the request arrive.

Daniel E Visbal

-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Settle [mailto:st@i-plus.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:24 PM
To: Squid Users
Subject: Bandwidth and load sharing

Hey all,

We're in the process of evaluating Squid as a transparent proxy server, and
all looks good so far. But, there's one major problem we'll be facing.

Currently, we're padding some of our BGP route announcements to balance out
our incoming bandwidth. About 1/2 of our dialup ports are padded, and the
other half are not.

If I bind 2 IP addresses to the ethernet interface on our squid box, can
Squid be configured to balance it's usage between those 2 addresses? If
not, can anyone offer any suggestions for balancing out our bandwidht usage
once we deploy Squid?

One thought that comes to mind is to have 2 caches, one on each subnet,
configured as siblings. The only disadvantage to this, is that it would
double our hardware costs.

How are other ISPs with 4k users and 2 T1s handling this situation?

TIA,

Troy Settle
iPlus Internet Services
Received on Thu Sep 30 1999 - 18:32:55 MDT