As I wrote in another post, I was considering of using two squid on two different machines, one for normal web stuff (small files) and another one for very big files (huge video). I was thinking to use a layer 7 switch in front of them, thus I could make clients use both of them in a transparent way! Reading something about a software layer 7 switching (Linux Virtual Server) I know that these three machine I would use (one layer 7 switching and 2 squid) should share the same virtual IP address. Now, this shouldn't be bad, as I could write in the squid.conf
http_port virtual_ip_address
thus both squid could use the same virtual IP address.
Here comes the funny part...well...I do even need that these two squid could use two different squid_parent via ICP. Going this way, I do need that the squid having the layer 7 switch in front could even use their real IP address to communicate with their own squid_parent. Could I use something like this in squid.conf to make everything work?
udp_incoming_address real_ip_address
udp_outgoing_address 255.255.255.255
I've made this small schema to make you understand better how I would like to connect everything!
TIA
Marco
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|parent_squid1| |parent_squid2|
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| ICP | ICP
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| squid1| | squid2|
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| Layer 7 switch|
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