[olug] Clustered Proxy Servers

[Brian Roberson]

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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