Re: [squid-users] load balancing two squid boxes howto?

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Hi There,

We use a very simple method of load balancing and not to mention very
cheap!!

We have 4 dns entries for 2 servers:

proxy: 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2 (2 entries with different IP's)
proxy1: 10.0.0.1
proxy2: 10.0.0.2

When we hand out the proxy server hostname to the browser via a proxy.pac
we hand out the hostname "proxy" when the dns lookup is done it will get a
response as shown below.

> proxy
Server: dns.server.com
Address: 10.0.0.22

Name: proxy.server.com
Addresses: 10.0.0.2, 10.0.0.1

This will be alternate so the next time around you will get 10.0.0.1 as the
first address, which means this splits up the requests between the 2
servers.

We also pass multiple addresses to the browser with the .pac in case...

Please this is a very simple load balancing idea and does not offer really
anything apart from roughly splitting the requests for the 2 proxys, in our
case this works great.

Hope this helps / makes sense....

Regards,
Richard Fuser
Firewall & UNIX Systems Administrator

                                                                                                                                               
                    jay omayan
                    <xjhay@yahoo. To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
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                                         Subject: [squid-users] load balancing two squid boxes howto?
                    03/06/2002
                    03:37 PM
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                               

greetings!

squid is very succesfull in terms of faster internet
and bandwidth savings to us...since our network is
gettings bigger i need to have two squid boxes...
my problem is how do i loadbalance two squid boxes?

any help would be appreciated...

thanks

Jay Omayan
IT Officer
scoobysNET/Bohol-Online/iCyberscape
Philippines

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