Hi, and thanks for the answer. Yes, we are using it as reverse proxy, but the main concern is about the posibility of getting a huge range of users masked behind a common IP and hammering just 1 server... is that possible or am I understanding the sourcehash mechanism wrong? Benja 2009/11/25 Jeff Peng <jeffpeng@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Are you running Squid for reverse-proxy? > If so there are many different IPs accessing your systems, so using a sourcehash for load-balancing is pretty well. > If not reverse-proxy sourcehash has nothing meanings. > > Regards. > > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: NublaII Lists <nublaii.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: squid 2.6/2.7 with cache_peer and sourcehash > Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:04:28 +0100 > > Hi, we have 3 caches running 2.6 and 2.7 serving pages and since we > need to maintain sessions we are thinking on using squid to do it > adding 'sourcehash' to the cache_peer lines. > > How does this work exactly? let's say my company uses a firewall that > exposes a single IP for outside web browsing. If I hit the squid > servers and get 1 assigned based on my IP, will all of my coworkers > hit the same server? > > My concern is that we get some of these type of big corporate clients > locked on a single machine while the other ones are doing nothing... > > Tnx > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Save $10 on Flowers and Gifts! > Shop now at www.ftd.com/16714 > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c?cp=HsdblD_1GVRJ_m1DjHOj5gAAJz5ACf6n_UAE-Zd6SA97QAxqAAIAAAAUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVBAAAAABodHRwOi8vd3d3LmZ0ZC5jb20vMTY3MTQ= >
