[squid-users] squid deployment

Hi guys,

We want to replace our current proxy solution (crappy commercial
product which is way too expensive) and thought about Squid, which is
a great product.I already found a couple of example configurations,
basically for reverse proxying. What we are looking for is a caching
and authentication (LDAP and NTLM) only solution with content
filtering via ICAP. We have following configuration in mind (firewalls
omitted):

Clients
     |
     |
     v
Loadbalancer
     |
     |
     v
Squid-Proxies <----> ICAP-Server
     |
     |
     v
INTERNET

We are expecting approx. 4500 requests per second average (top 6000
RPS) and 150Mbit/s, so I suppose we need a couple of Squids. The
preferable solution would be big servers with a lot of memory and
Squid 3.0 on a 64Bit RHEL5.
Does anybody know any similar scenarios? Any suggestions? What are
your experiences?

The ICAP Servers are commercial ones (at least at the beginning), but
I have following problem. I want to use multiple ICAP Servers in each
Squid configuration with loadbalancing, unfortunately it is not
supported and does not work in Squid 3.

best regards
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 13:18:32 MDT