Re: [squid-users] Load balance redundant servers

No redirector required for round-robin distribution. Simply make a
internal domain name of all the hosts, and Squid will automatically
round-robin over the IP's.

You can also play some tricks with cache_peer.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Dan Andersson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have looked through the mailing list, but not found an answer to the
> following question. Is it possible to build the following?
> 
>                   /--->Host 1
> Client ----->Squid---->Host ...
>                   \--->Host N
> 
> * Squid is in accelerator mode.
> * The proxy does not cache.
> * Host 1...N is redundant (have the same content)
> * Redirector program uses internal algo (eg round robin) to select the
> host to forward the client request to.
> 
> ...and how do you do it ;) (I have tried various configs without any
> luck.)
> 
> Thanks
> / Dan