On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Nimesh Shah wrote:
> Based on information I received earlier (attached below for
> multiple squid instances), how is the data
> replication achieved between two cache instances (the
> primary objective being fail-over)?
Normally you run the Squids in active-active mode having each others as
siblings. This will make the cache mostly duplicated in both instances.
> A little extension to my earlier query, can we configure
> a load-balancer or like in front of squid so that each squid
> instance is utilised effectively?
Yes. Or you can use proxy.pac to have the browsers do the load balancing.
My preference is using a TCP load balancer.
> If so how is this achieved in squid configuration?
Squid does not really care how it gets the traffic. It just processes what
gets sent to him.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Nov 28 2003 - 04:25:26 MST
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