Re: Optimizing squid

You've just described a router. If you have a hardware router then you must
configure it in a way that the routing protocol (BGP or any other you may be
using) will automatically detect the optimum route. This has nothing to do
with squid because the software operates at the last layer of the OSI
reference modem and the routers operate at the first 3 or 4 layers.
What kind of machine is this "gateway"?

Panagiotis S. Malakoudis

Systems Administrator
SPACE HELLAS S.A.
----- Original Message -----
From: Federico E. Petronio <petronio@ifeva.edu.ar>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 7:02 PM
Subject: Optimizing squid

>
> My name is Federico Petronio
>
> I work as System administrator at Faculty of Agriculture at The
> University of Buenos Aires.
> I would like to ask you some question regarding squid use optimization.
> First of all, I will describe the scenario:
> We have a machine with squid installed. All the machines in our Faculty
> use this squid to navigate.
> We have two gateways to Internet, so we think squid could chose between
> these two gateways in order to access the URLs required by the users.
>
> Can squid dynamically (and in an intelligent way) chose between
> different gateways ?
>
> Can squid (or any other tool) detect which gateway is the fastest and
> then use it ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Federico Petronio
> petronio@ifeva.edu.ar
> Linux User #129974
Received on Tue Nov 09 1999 - 23:24:12 MST