Re: [squid-users] round-robin and lack of load balancing thru icp problem

>adding such option to squid would be trivial, and greatly improve
setups
>where multiple ISP lines are available. there could be
>round-robin-bond=[weight]
>and 'algorithm' would be to measure incoming data rate, multiply
it by number
>of total weights , and do an icp query of next peer cache available
for RETR
>with this offset, proportional to it's weight, then move to next one.
>offsets could be updated as the data flows...

A better solution might be to use iproute2. Have all the Internet
connections come into a single Squid box, then have the other two
use the first as a parent. Setup iproute2 on the parent to load balance
and failover with the Internet connections.

You can then setup round-robin DNS for the child caches and have
the clients use host names, not IP addresses, to connect. This will
load balance the child caches.

I have never actually done this, but searching for "Linux advance
routing howto" and "Linux round robin DNS" should give you enough
info to get you started.

Adam
Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 17:59:15 MDT