Re: [squid-users] Round robin upstream parents....

[Schelstraete Bart]

HEllo Donovan,


1.	Have my local squid server use a collection of upstream servers by
default as the next host when serving a HTTP or FTP request
 

You need to use the cache-peer option in the squid configuration file:

For example:

   cache_peer proxy.parent.com parent 3128 3130 round-robin
   cache_peer proxy.parent2.com parent 3128 3130 round-robin
If one goes down, it will be marked as 'invalid' and will not be used 
untill it's available again.
But pls note that round robin proxies can give problems with 'shopping 
sites' or similar. -something I discovered a few weeks ago.
because most sites are 'storing' the IP, and because the ip can change, 
some big problems can occurs. (you can solve this for particular 
websites by using cache_peer_access option but then you won't have 
'round robin' for those websites)

For more info regarding this:  
http://squid.visolve.com/squid24s1/neighbour.htm

2.	Obscure the external address of my proxy to the outside world
 

The  ip address of your local proxy or the parent proxy?  The IP visible 
to the outside world is the  'highest" proxy.  So the one that is 
connect to the internet.



rgrds,

 Bart

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[squid-users] Round robin upstream parents....

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

I would like to do the following, and am looking for the best configuration
to do this:

1.  Have my local squid server use a collection of upstream servers by
default as the next host when serving a HTTP or FTP request
2.  Obscure the external address of my proxy to the outside world
3.  Have the ability to rotate the upstream proxy servers in use (I
don't want to use my ISP's upstream server)

TIA

--Donovan 
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[squid-users] Round robin upstream parents....

[Donovan J. Edye]

G'Day,

I would like to do the following, and am looking for the best configuration
to do this:

1.  Have my local squid server use a collection of upstream servers by
default as the next host when serving a HTTP or FTP request
2.  Obscure the external address of my proxy to the outside world
3.  Have the ability to rotate the upstream proxy servers in use (I
don't want to use my ISP's upstream server)

TIA

--Donovan 
Web: http://www.edye.wattle.id.au  
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