[squid-users] Adjusting Parent Cache weight based on acl

Hello Everyone,

Although I haven't reached the stage yet of needing the following
feature I thought I might as well start talking about it soon. I would
like to suggest (if there isn't already a way of doing this) the
following idea for Squid:

Adjusting a Parent Cache's weight based on acl - What this means is the
following:

I have a main proxy server called (let's say) main_proxy. I have two
sibling proxy servers called child1_proxy and child2_proxy. Child1 and 2
proxies both have there own internet link of different sizes (the one is
adsl and the other one a E1). Now to balance requests between them is
simple, just add them with the same weight. To use one for a set of
users etc is simple. What I would like to do is dynamically control the
weight of each cache, based on acl's

Let's say Client A is an exec and needs high speed caching, I want some
requests to go over the adsl and some over the E1. Now I would like to
do this during some time or something else...all do'able with the
current acl's, but what if I want to change the proxy based on
system/network load or some external factor, or I want to say something
like, when Client A requests it from username "user" and from IP a.b.c.d
(say a dial up) then decrease the weight of the adsl proxy.

I hope this is making sense, since I feel like i havn't really carried
over the idea "correctly".

Thanks,

Pieter De Wit
Received on Thu Dec 13 2007 - 13:54:16 MST