Fwd: [squid-users] Squid + F5 balancing doesnt work!!!

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> From: Andrew Miehs <andrew_at_2sheds.de>
> Date: 2 July 2008 10:32:34 AM
> To: "chris brain" <chris.brain_at_wanews.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid + F5 balancing doesnt work!!!
>
>
> On 02/07/2008, at 4:18 AM, chris brain wrote:
>
>> We use F5 boxes. Amos is correct. Turn on destination persistance
>> for the
>> squid pool on the F5 unit. This will hold provided the traffic is
>> consistant
>> over the persistance timer (the timer might have to be set quite
>> large -
>> i.e. hours). Depending on the type of F5 unit you will have different
>> methods of persistance available.
>>
>> chris
>
> You will probably want to use source ip address based persistence - as
> you are not using the squid in a reverse proxy mode.
>
> Thought on the side:... can the F5s do the authentication?.... hmmm
>
> Cheers
>
> Andrew
Received on Wed Jul 02 2008 - 08:32:55 MDT