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On Nov 22, 2007 8:33 AM, Ming-Ching Tiew <mingching.tiew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "Siju George" <sgeorge.ml@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > But not something I would recommend. Many sites dislikes clients coming
> > > from more than one IP during the same session. The client IP is often
> > > embedded in session cookies etc, making the session fail if the IP
> > > changes.
> > >
> >
> > Yes Henrik.
> > Such sites are identified and there is af firewall rule added to PF in
> > OpenBSD to route them through the same interface.. But it is not a
> > problem with majority of the sites.
> >
>
> Perhaps it will be interesting for squid to have an acl called random :-
>
> ( is there one already ? )
>
> eg
>
>        acl rnd random 50       # 50 %
>
>        tcp_outgoing_address x.x.x.x rnd       <--- use x 50 % of time
>        tcp_outgoing_address y.y.y.y rnd       <---- use y 50% of time
>        tcp_outgoing_address z.z.z.z              <--- have to provide a
> default in case nothing is matched
>
> And the random acl can be used together with other acl too !
>
> eg
>         acl link1 dst .....
>         tcp_outgoing_address x.x.x.x link1 rnd
>
> :-)
>

If you use the

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing

method as I use now then even through the outgoing address will be
changed for 50% of the packets those same packets will be routed out
through the default interface only :-(

Thankyou so much

kind Regards

Siju

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