Re: [squid-users] cache_peer with multiple IP addresses

You can define the same entry multiple times with round robin and this gives a
percentage weight of requests.

This can be used for load balancing of different sized parents with various
bandwidths.

Example

peer 3
peer 1
peer 3
peer 2
peer 3
peer 1
peer 3

2/7 requests to peer 1
1/7 requests to peer 2
This shall send 4/7 requests to peer 3

Hope this helps

Further control can be gained by modifying the source.

As far as I know (AFAIK)

On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:00 am, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Elsen Marc wrote:
> > > During the last Millenium, we started using hierarchical Squid arrays
> > > with load balancing. We are currently using Squid 2.4 STABLE7.
> > >
> > > We have been migrating to a new network architecture and have noticed
> > > some problems with accessing the parent cache. This appears to be
> >
> > What are those problems, then ?
> > Details, error messages e.d...
>
> The "detected DEAD parent/sibling" messages in the cache log. Squid
> records multiple IP addresses for several siblings and the parent in an
> array. The [0] element of the array may be the one with the longest delay
> or unreachable.
>
> Is there a mechanism to define a preference order to IP addresses?
>
> Merton Campbell Crockett
>
> > M.
> >
> > > the result of Squid storing all IP addresses associated with a parent
> > > or sibling cache.
> > >
> > > When queried, our DNS servers return the IP addresses in the preferred
> > > order. Unfortunately, Squid stores the returned IP addresses but
> > > doesn't maintain the ordering.
> > >
> > > Is there a mechanism within Squid for defining an IP address
> > > sort list?
> > >
> > > Merton Campbell Crockett
Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 11:16:05 MDT