Re: squid with two NICs

AFAIK(+experiment), without bgp( i am facing the same problem), it's
difficult to do that.
but may be my method can help,

 ISP2 ISP1
         | |
        squid1 squid2
  | |
  |---- NATD -----|
        squid
                 |
          |
      internet
               user

squid1 & squid2 using usual configuration
at natd squid using

cache_peer squid1 parent 3128 7 no-query round-robin
cache_peer squid2 parent 3128 7 no-query round-robin

or

cache_peer squid1 parent 3128 3130
cache_peer squid2 parent 3128 3130

but some manual touch still be needed.
any suggestion ?

Best regards,

Thomas Wahyudi
Computer Centre - Internet Division =====
     Parahyangan Catholic University
         http://www.unpar.ac.id
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Vincent K. Pozon - CompE <vince@trinity.cebu.pilnet.com>
To: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 4:06 PM
Subject: squid with two NICs

> i have squid running with two (2) NIC . we also have 2 internet
> leased line to different providers. what i want to do is that i want to
> load balance our internet traffic using squid since the two providers
> doesnt have BGP with each other.
> my first NIC of my squid server is has an IP address routed to the first
> internet provider , the second NIC has an IP address routed to the seconf
> internt provider. since , AFAIK , this is the only way to load balance
> internet traffic to the whole users i was hoping if squid is capable of
> load balancing ourgoing/incoming request to the two NIC. if squid has
> nothing to do with this and it is the OS (redhat linux 6.2 ) should be
> configured , how ? please reply with recommended URL/sites to refer and/or
> delailed steps on how to do this.
Received on Fri Jun 16 2000 - 03:18:00 MDT