Re: Optimizing squid

I think you should try zebra with routing-protocols(RIP or OSPF or IGRP)
with respect to your needs on network properties,on your squid machine.
or simply use gated(with RIP) and some IPChain (or IPFWADM) commands.
www.zebra.org

> 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 Wed Nov 10 1999 - 16:57:43 MST