[squid-users] Fail-over config

Geez - what an off day - forgot to change the Subject and to add that it's
going to be working as a transparent proxy.

Thanks,

Pieter

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Pieter De Wit wrote:

>> When you are confidant about this going, we can move on to the HTTPS and
>> failover questions.
>>
>> Amos
>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Sorry that I am "dropping" in on this thread, but it reminded me that I need
> to find this out.
>
> I am working on a "active-active" firewall for a customer. It will be two
> Linux boxes (Gentoo for now) running VRRP to publish a virtual IP. I have
> done the firewall setup so that connections can failover between the boxes
> (takes about 30 seconds - I am sure the heartbeat can be set to less) but it
> works ok :)
>
> Now - the tricker part. Let say someone is currently busy with a download,
> can squid do a failover of the connection ? If so, mind pointing me to the
> setup docs ?
>
> If this is going to be a feature to add to squid, then I am happy to take it
> to the dev mailing list and "propose" something there.
>
> Please accept my best attempt at ASCII art :)
>
> | eth2 |eth2
> ___|___ ___|___
> | NODE1| |NODE2|
> | | --eth1---eth1--| |
> ---|--- ---|---
> | eth0 |eth0
>
>
> eth0 - Private LAN
> eth1 - heartbeat,failover and ICP LAN
> eth2 - Internet
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pieter
>
Received on Mon Apr 06 2009 - 01:34:36 MDT