Re: [squid-users] Load balancing on single machine

"Masood Ahmad Shah" <masood@ipsec.fibre.net.pk> writes:

> In my sense if one proxy will down another will not take it's place because
> iptable rules are redirecting packets to both port and port instance is not
> running.. so what type of load balancing .........:)

Load balancing _is_ in effect. It's the health-checking that's not.
For that you'd have to concot some script modifying the iptables rules
depending on service availability. I'll leave that as an exercise for the readers.

> Better to run Linux clustering that is much better then things like that...

It's just done in a different way. BTW, I tried to use linuxvirtualserver
on the same host, but for some reason it didn't really work.

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