Can Hearbeat work for remote squids? I'm researching for fail-over and high availablity for squid running in remote locations.
I run my heartbeat connections via crossover cables directly into second interfaces. You don't want latency creeping up and causing problems. I wouldn't recommend this....though, theorhetically it would work.
Andrew
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).
I would appreciate any help in this.
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