On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Flavio Catalani wrote: > Hi, > > I've read that squid can balance the requests when used as a reverse proxy > using stickiness over srcIP. > > On http://devel.squid-cache.org/old_projects.html#rproxy it is described as > beta. > > I could not find any info on how to configure squid using sticky load > balancing. Can anyone help me?
This function is not yet in mainline Squid, but can be found in the rproxy patch at the location above.. > with stickiness on srcIP: every request from the same IP must be satisfied > (if not in cache) from the same WebServer. Please note that there are perfectly valid situations where a client may change source IP address in the middle of a session. You can not assume the source IP is the clients IP. The client may be connecting to your site via a mesh of cache servers, and different requests during the same session may travel different paths in this cache mesh. One simple example is a company having two cache servers in a load balanced manner. Another example is companies having more than two cache servers or peering with other cache servers. Regards Henrik
