Re: [squid-users] what is best method to connect two squid servers on the same router?

From: Pieter De Wit <pieter_at_insync.za.net>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 20:22:16 +1200

On 13/05/2013 11:34, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 13/05/2013 2:26 a.m., Fix Nichols wrote:
>> Heh if you are running Debian and lazy, you could 'apt-get install
>> squid -y ; apt-get install squid3 -y' Youd have squid 2.7 and squid3
>> both installed.
> And wont work for much longer. We are in the process of replacing
> "squid" with a transitional package to squid3.
>> But I know, thats just being lazy, you can install two squids just
>> change the name and location of your binaries on one of them, and its
>> cache directories, as well. Assuming squid is resident on a pc and
>> not a router that is. It should be pretty straight forward.
> Or do it properly and install Squid once. Just start it twice with two
> squid.conf files containing different settings. Ta-Dah!
>
>
> If, I'm understanding the original poster right though it sounds like
> traffic is leaving the Squid and being diverted back into them in a
> forwarding loop. Or that the traffic flows are getting mixed up somehow
> in other ways.
>
> Amos

While you are busy with the deb packages, how about not putting in a
squid.conf and rather calling it squid.conf.default, or do "include"
configs like Apache ? Pretty please ? :)

Cheers,

Pieter
Received on Mon May 13 2013 - 08:22:30 MDT

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