Re: [squid-users] CARP setup

Thanks Henrik.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On fre, 2008-10-10 at 16:40 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote:
>
>> How do I setup CARP in squid ? Whats a typical setup like ?
>
> Squid only support CARP parents, that is a Squid parenting with a CARP
> like array of Squid servers.
>
> Intra-array CARP routing is not supported (where members of a CARP array
> direct incoming requests to the correct array member within the same
> CARP array).
>
> A typical setup using CARP with Squid is a two layer Squid structure
> with N frontend nodes getting requests from users, and N backend nodes
> doing the bulk of the caching. The frontend nodes route requests to the
> backend nodes using CARP to optimize cache utilization and avoiding
> duplicate storage without the need of spending time on query protocols
> like ICP or HTCP.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Mon Oct 13 2008 - 04:14:14 MDT