RE: [squid-users] multiple wan links

How are these two ISP's linked to you? 2 different firewall/routers? 1 with
two NICs? If all you have connecting you to the internet is squid, then the
round robin technique, on squid, should work fine. If your ISP's both
connect to your infrastructure and you have more back end servers, then you
could put a load balancer closer to the "door" to the internet, is what I
meant. The ISP's wouldn't need to have a proxy running for this to happen.

----isp one----->nic| /---squid
                    |<(load balancer)<----other
----isp twp----->nic| \---email

Chris Perreault
Webmaster/MCSE
The Wiremold Company
West Hartford, CT 06010
860-233-6251 ext 3426

-----Original Message-----
From: Abdock [mailto:abdock@zanlink.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:52 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] multiple wan links

None of the ISP has proxy service.

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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:18:19PM +0300, Abdock wrote:
> > I need some help in configuring squid to utilise 2 links.
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> > We have 2 links from 2 different ISP, is there a way to configure
> > squid so that it can utilise both the links equally when they are up,
> > and if one fails it continues to serve with one.
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> If both ISPs provide a proxy service you could set both up in
> "cache_peer" and tag them "round-robin" so they will both be used. If
> one goes done the other will be used for all requests.
>
> Christoph
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> Depending on your network you might want to load balance things closer
> to the internet too, so other things such as email can take advantage
> of the same benefits.
>
> Chris Perreault
Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 13:12:23 MDT