Re: [squid-users] load balancing traffic through squid on systems with 2 Internet connections

> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:
> > > As far as I know, you could do "split access" using
> > > the 'tcp_outgoing_address' method, but you can't
> > > get squid to use it in round-robin manner.
> > >
> > > I might be wrong. :-)

> On ons, 2007-11-21 at 13:50 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > I don't think there is, but making squid do that with a small source patch
> > wouldn't be difficult.

On 21.11.07 21:46, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> But not something I would recommend. Many sites dislikes clients coming
> from more than one IP during the same session. The client IP is often
> embedded in session cookies etc, making the session fail if the IP
> changes.

We have squid servers behind L3 switch (balancer) which uses the
'sourcehash' technique for balancing requests because of this reason. Maybe
such functionality could be integrated into squid. Or into packetfilter :)

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