Re: [squid-users] Smart load balancing

It is. One of the features provided by our Squid based eMARA product.

There are numerous different load distribution methods one can use in Squid,
and a number of other funny things one can do.

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 17.06, Ryszard Lach wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like something like this:
>
> RealServer1____
>
> RealServer2----|
>
> |_____LoadBalancer...........BorderRouter........Internet
>
> .
> .
> .
> Realserver3..........
>
> Where LoadBalancer has a public IP address and redirects all requests to
> (or: returns to clients pages fetched from) RealServer1 and RealServer2
> when they're working O.K. (i.e. they answer at port http with 200 HTTP
> code) and to RealServer3, when both of the two first servers don't answer
> or return e.g. 500 HTTP code. Is, in your opinion, possible to create such
> an environment using Squid as 'LoadBalancer' ?

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