Thanks Henrik. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On fre, 2008-10-10 at 16:40 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote: > >> How do I setup CARP in squid ? Whats a typical setup like ? > > Squid only support CARP parents, that is a Squid parenting with a CARP > like array of Squid servers. > > Intra-array CARP routing is not supported (where members of a CARP array > direct incoming requests to the correct array member within the same > CARP array). > > A typical setup using CARP with Squid is a two layer Squid structure > with N frontend nodes getting requests from users, and N backend nodes > doing the bulk of the caching. The frontend nodes route requests to the > backend nodes using CARP to optimize cache utilization and avoiding > duplicate storage without the need of spending time on query protocols > like ICP or HTCP. > > Regards > Henrik >
