Re: trnsparent proxy

I would recommend at least starting with one transparent proxy. Squid on
a decent PC with a reasonable amount of RAM and disk space will handle
quite a few users. You shouldn't have to do load balancing at the web
cache.

Russell Mosemann * Computing Services * Concordia University, Nebraska

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Daniel Suen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:39:08 EAT
> From: Daniel Suen <ttdsuen@ln.edu.hk>
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: trnsparent proxy
> Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: squid-users@ircache.net
>
> 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.
>
Received on Thu Apr 20 2000 - 06:34:18 MDT