Re: [squid-users] Current Performance?

Using a TCP proxy has the drawback that the users IP addresses will be
hidden from the real proxy. All will appear as if coming from the server
running the TCP proxy.

Another alternative is to use a "TCP loadbalancer / L4 switch", such as
Linux Virtual Server <http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org>. LVS also have
the neat feature that the load balancer can be clustered among your farm
members, eleminating the need of a separate load balancing component...

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker

Colin Campbell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Have you looked at "balance". Here's an excerpt from its man page:
>
> Balance is a simple, generic "userland" TCP proxy, which
> allows simple round robin load balancing and failover
> between serveral destinations.
>
> Balance is available at http://balance.sourceforge.net.
>
> If you put balance on a box that did nothing else and configured the
> browsers to use it as their proxy and it handed off to several squids you
> might get a cheap effective solution. Of course it requires the "balancer"
> to have the throughput required to service multiple squids. If it's doing
> nothing else I'd suspect this to not be a problem.
Received on Wed Dec 05 2001 - 17:41:04 MST