Re: trnsparent proxy

Daniel Suen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are planing on using transparent proxy, however, after reading the
> documentation, we still want some clarifications. The problem is that,
> transparent proxy can't be made possible if I try to use two or more
> proxy servers on the same subnet.
>
> >From the documentation, it says that I can configure the router to pass
> all port 80 packets untouched to a subnet that I specify, on which I have
> a transparent proxy server that sucks these packets and serve the requests.
> As the transparent proxy server os must be configured to suck up packets not
> addressed to itself, this means that if I place another tansparent proxy server
> in the same subnet, it is not going to work.
>
> What I want to ask is that, in the current state of art, how can I put
> several proxy servers to achieve load balancing if transparent proxy is to
> be used? Maybe I have some misunderstanding on the documentation. Our goal
> is to make proxy transparent to users, as well as achieve some sort of
> load sharing. Appreciate any suggestions!
>
> -daniel.

hello daniel,

    if you load balance the transparent thing, your biggest problem is the SSL and
cookies. the most appropriate thing to do is divide those blocks of source ip to
every cache server that you have.

fooler.
Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 22:46:52 MDT