Re: [squid-users] Outbound Load-balancing

Yeah, the client connections are coming from one data link. The
outbound connections are on another, but there's 4 IPs on that
interface.

do you have any suggestions, tips, or links to help me with configuration?

cheers,

Ian

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
<ildefonso.camargo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have done this kind of stuff using mainly SNAT rules (iptables on
> Linux), but as for squid itself.. dunno.
>
> Why do they want to use the 5 IPs?, are these from one single data link?.
>
> If they are trying to load balance across different links, the
> configuration is more complicated (but still possible, and have probed
> to work very well for me).
>
> c-ya!
>
> Ildefonso.
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Ian Savoy <iansavoy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been asked to configure a squid proxy for a small business. My
>> client wants me to configure squid on a server with a block of 5 IPs,
>> and do it in a way that outbound requests are, for lack of a better
>> term, load-balanced across the servers own IP block. I guess kind of
>> anonymizing which IP the requests are coming from. Is there any way
>> of doing this? I know i can set certain protocols to go out certain
>> IPs, but how do I randomize it? If I can't randomize it, is there a
>> way to control it from the client without running several instances of
>> squid on the server?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
Received on Sun Aug 03 2008 - 04:23:55 MDT