Re: squid with two NICs

At 22:56 00-06-18 +0200, Bert Driehuis wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Stephen Amadei wrote:
>
> > either useing two NICs or two virtual interfaces... but I cannot figure
> > how to get the two squids to speak to each other, so squid1 isn't
> > retrieving objects that are in squid2's cache. Plus I need to configure
> > this mess to use Cidera... ;-)
>
>What I do is have to machines running Squid with the icmp pinger enabled.
>They have an IP address corresponding with the provider they're hooked to.
>They have very little caches, so I'm not worried about the duplicated
>cache. Then the big proxy is configured with these machines as parent, and
>to get the ICMP measurments via ICP. This setup works very well in
>determining the best path. It also provides a fairly reliable detection of
>a Squid hooked up to a dead provider (except of course for sites that
>disallow ICMP, but hey, they deserve to fall off the net :-)

Which one squid?
on 2.2S5 I can not get it to work - the ICMP measures was correct on the
"parent" servers, but they do not influent on the "user" cache - e.g. I get
sides from "wrong" ISP (wrong means more then 10 times slower).
Received on Mon Jun 19 2000 - 00:57:43 MDT