[olug] Clustered Proxy Servers

[Jason Ferguson]

Well, Im thinking that theres plenty of network capacity. This is just
for a "my education" type of thing. However, Im wondering if it is
possible to overload a single proxy server when a couple thousand
workstations are attached to it. If so, a proxy cluster might be an
idea.

Again, this is my education only. This is a hypothetical situation
(based on a real one).

Jason


On 14 May 2001 23:17:27 -0500, Brian Roberson wrote:
> When you say "overloaded" are you refering to network bandwith, disk
> activity, cpu overload Or what? I can tell you a heathly linux box with
> a decent amount of ram and fast disk running squid as the proxy server
> can saturate a 100Mb FDX link no problem. As far as a clustered
> solution, you can use lvs ( http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org ) to setup
> a proxy cluster, you can even do cooler things like transparent proxying
> ( e.g. don't setup the web browser to use a proxy, just redirect all
> packets destined for port 80 to a proxy server capable of handling
> non-proxied requests.. Squid can handle these ) but in reality, you need
> to answer my first question before justifying a different solution.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Ferguson [mailto:jferguson3 at home.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:47 PM
> > To: olug at bstc.net
> > Subject: [olug] Clustered Proxy Servers
> > 
> > 
> > Alright, I have a question. Heres a hypothetical situation:
> > 
> > Take a small server running Deadrat Linux 7.1, acting as a 
> > proxy server. However, this proxy server is rather 
> > overloaded. Its not a hardware issue... its a very large network.
> > 
> > My question: is it possible to cluster a couple of servers 
> > together as a proxy? If so, does anyone know where I could 
> > learn how to do it?
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
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