re: Separating FTP traffic from HTTP

> Can I configure a browser to use different port numbers for HTTP and FTP?
> I'd like to do this for a customer who uses Squid, and the purpose of the
> exercise is to proxy the HTTP and FTP traffic using different servers,
> i.e. HTTP traffic on one server, FTP on another. This traffic
> engineering exercise is aimed at allowing the HTTP proxy servers to work
> at full speed, unencumbered by FTP sessions (which tend to take up
> relatively larger amounts of CPU and memory resources). Thanks!

We did this in a little different fashion. We created different sites in
our DNS to accommodate having different proxy servers dealing with
different types of traffic. For instance:

http.proxy.humberc.on.ca
ftp.proxy.humberc.on.ca
(etc.)

All communicate via port 8080, but this allows me to run everything on one
server or multiple servers.

Having said that, I am currently using two full proxy servers and am using
two CNAMES entries in the DNS to load balance them.

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Received on Mon Apr 21 1997 - 15:11:32 MDT