On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:36, Bin Liu wrote: > If you want failover & load balance, WCCP is strongly recommended. I'll have to read up more on WCCP, which was previously a cisco proprietry code or algo or something.
I just bought the O'Reilly book - Squid: the Definitive Guide. (But unfortunately it's doesn't go into load-balancing) > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:10:16 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:37, Venkatesh K wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:00:47 +0800, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and > > > > high availablity for squid running in remote locations. > > > > > > > > eg: > > > > > > > > ---[center1]--interstate--[center2]--- > > > > > > > > center1 and center2 will have independent squid installations. (but each > > > > will use the other as sibling) > > > > > > > > most likely using transparent proxy/wccp/ bridging (which one is better) > > > > and I would like users connected to center1's squid be fail-overed to > > > > center2's squid in case center1 goes down. (otherwise, being a > > > > tranparent proxy, if center1(or 2)'s squid goes down, (for some reason) > > > > I-net access for that center will fail. > > > > > > > > AFAIK, Hearbeat uses serial cables for monitoring, (I may be wrong, the > > > > last time I read the documentation). > > > > > > > You can use heartbeat for monitoring and changeover. If you want an > > > easy way out, check out on www.ultramonkey.org. Serial port is not a > > > must. You can check heartbeat over ethernet also. > > > > I'll check this monkey out. > > > > > > > > You need to have both servers in one single subnet for heartbeat to > > > work for you. > > > > One single subnet. Hmm.. I wonder if it can be done based on the config > > I drawn above. > > > > -- > > Ow Mun Heng > > Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz > > Neuromancer 11:09:18 up 1:47, 6 users, 0.51, 0.46, 0.54 > > > > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 14:41:50 up 5:20, 5 users, 1.14, 0.58, 0.41
