On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 08:51:00AM -0400, jeff donovan wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Kinkie wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, jeff donovan > ><donovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>greetings > >> > >>How could I go about load balancing two or more transparent proxy > >>squid servers ? > >>No caching invloved. This is strictly for access. > >> > >>i thought about dns round robin, but that didn't make sense since i > >>am forwarding all connections to a single interface. > >> > >>any insight would be helpful > > > > > >So both instances are running on the same (bridging?) system? > >Can you give some more details? > > I have 12 subnets coming off router 1 and 12 coming off router 2 each > pass through a transparent squid. > > I want to for better or worse " Mux " these two and add a 3rd box. > > combine the 24 subnets ---> ( 3 squids ) ---> What is the reason for combining them? What do you mean by a single "interface"? What data rates are you talking about at each point? I've seen squid load balancing done 3 ways: round-robin dns, a "blade" in a Cisco switch, and on 2 systems running LinuxVirtualServer in combination with linux-ha. - Dave
