> -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Dugas [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:58 AM > To: Squid Users Mailing List > Subject: [squid-users] Select parent without ICP > > > Wondering if this will work... I have a laptop that moves with me between > multiple networks. I'm wondering it I might setup squid to know about the > available proxy servers on each of them and "figure out" which one it > should be using. I need to do this without using ICP as most of them are > actually WinISA proxys (shudder). > > I'm running a stock Fedora Core 3 distribution with updates. I've > adjusted squid.conf to add the following entries: > > cache_peer 192.168.1.1 parent 8080 0 no-query > cache_peer 10.0.0.1 parent 8080 0 no-query > cache_peer 192.168.200.1 parent 8080 0 no-query login=foo:bar > > prefer_direct off > > When I'm on the 192.168.1.x network, all is well and it never seems to > even try connecting to the other two peers. When I'm on one of the other > two, it seems to be stuck trying to connect to the first one. > > I've tried adding connect-timeout=5 to each cache_peer entry with no change. > > Is this just not possible? Is there a better approach? > > Paul Add round-robin to the cache_peer lines (i.e. cache_peer 192.168.1.1 parent 8080 0 no-query round-robin) and you'll be set. Make sure you add it to all the lines so they are all part of the round-robin queue. Squid will automatically detect "dead" parents and not try to proxy through them. Chris
