Re: [squid-users] CARP setup

Hi Henrik,

In CARP setup, if one uses same weightage for all the parent caches
how would the requests be handled ? will the requests be equally
forwarded to all the parent caches ? if the weightages differ then
won't all the requests be forwarded to a particular parent cache only
which has the highest weightage ?

Also if I do not use the "proxy-only" option in the squid which
forwards the requests to parent caches, won't less number of requests
be forwarded to parent caches since it will be already cached by squid
in front of the parent caches?

Thanks in advance.

-Paras

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Henrik Nordstrom
<henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> On tis, 2008-10-14 at 14:10 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote:
>
>> Also , should the squid server with the below configuration be made
>> not to cache anything fetched from the parent caches by specifying
>> "proxy-only" option ?
>
> proxy-only means that nothing fetched from that peer will be cached
> locally in this Squid.
>
>> Is that something that a CARP setup demands?
>
> No. The two is not related and can be combined as you please. But in
> most setups you do not want proxy-only.
>
>> How
>> do I make a particular request be forwarded to a particular parent
>> cache ?
>
> cache_peer_domain / cache_peer_access. Or by using CARP if it's just
> important the same request always hits the same parent, not exactly
> which of the parents this is..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Thu Oct 16 2008 - 04:12:08 MDT