RE: [squid-users] RE : [squid-users] load balancing

Awesome help thanks....

I knew about the hardware way ... let me investigate the Linux way ;-)

Regards

Gert Brits
Senior Engineer
Technology Concepts
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-----Original Message-----
From: mathieu.millet@ratp.fr [mailto:mathieu.millet@ratp.fr]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:55 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] RE : [squid-users] load balancing

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Gert Brits [mailto:gbrits@techconcepts.co.za]
> Envoyé : jeudi 22 juillet 2004 13:40
> À : Squid-Users@Squid-Cache. Org
> Objet : [squid-users] load balancing
>
>
> Hi All
>
> Please could I have either some ideas or solutions to the following:
>
> I work for a BIG company, providing internet services for
> many customers.
>
> I am planning to install a load balancing plan for our cache
> server, which will obviously load balance, but will also have
> a redundant feature.
>
> What can I do this with?

You may perform using either solution like LVS (Linux Virtual Server)
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org or load-balancing dedicated equipment such
as Radware Cache Server Director (or Web Server Director), F5 BIG IP, Nortel
Alteon, Cisco (I wouldn't recommend since they are not good in this market,
really).

The thing is you have an equipment (either special switchs or linux servers)
that dispatches the incoming requests to "real" servers. The load-balancer
"know" the states of each "real" servers to prevent dispatching requests to
an overloaded server.

And to avoir single point of failure, the dispatcher is doubled in an
active/passive way.

> Basically have to servers service the caching, but "they must
> look like one server" ... I am sure I sound stupid, but just
> to make sure.
>

I hope it will help you.

Sincerely yours, Mathieu.
Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 06:07:05 MDT