RE: [squid-users] having redundancy within squid

Hi,
We have autoconfig as well; as far as I know it covers server or proxy
failure and it does not cover ISP or outer router failure.
Thanks,
Nooshin

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:46 PM
To: Zand, Nooshin
Cc: 'squid-users@squid-cache.org'
Subject: Re: [squid-users] having redundancy within squid

we do it in the proxy autoconfig/wpad.dat file. that way the clients can
transparently fail over on their own...

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Zand, Nooshin wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to know how can I implement redundancy within squid.
> When ISP or outer router is done, we change squid.conf to go via another
> direction by utilizing "cache_peer parent proxy-name" parameter.
> Is it any parameter in squid that does the same job, however, it does it
> when URL is not reachable via normal/direct connection.
> By doing this, there is no need to monitor ISP, outer router, and to
change
> squid.conf.
>
> Thanks,
> Nooshin Zand
>
>

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