Hi.
What you are describing could be achieved without the use of specialized
hardware.
It all depends on the topology of your network and how your users are
distributed, but you could use a mock version of transparent proxying to
forward packets destined for your proxy server to different proxy servers in
your proxy group. This could be done based on source network, thus all of
your proxy servers would get an equal share of the requests (based on the
assumption that no single host makes more requests than another).
Between your load balanced proxies you could then run ICP or Cache Digests
(Cache Digests preferably). This would not impact server or network load
noticeably.
I have configured a similar system for one of my previous employers and it
is still in use today.
Just my two cents :)
Matthew King.
Network Engineer, Cable & Wireless Optus.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Stewpot [mailto:xtc@3dman.net]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 April 2000 10:10 AM
To: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Load balancing Switches
Hello,
has anyone experimented with load balancing switches into squid systems.
we are looking at a basic setup, where we hvae a load balancing switch
(unknown type yet). spreading the traffic over our four proxy servers, to
help reduce load on individual servers on our network. If anyone has any
ideas on how this would be best achievable it would be excellent :0
thankyou in advance
Jimmy
Received on Wed Apr 26 2000 - 12:10:14 MDT
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