On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 23:10, Andrew Sawyers wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > 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.
In theory.. I think I need to experiment on this then. Seeing that you're a sys-admin for managed hosting, do you have any tips on load-balance for multiple thousands of squid users? What's the likelihood that squid will fail and then users are left w/o any I-net connections? > 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. > > > > -- > > Ow Mun Heng > > Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz > > Neuromancer 18:00:01 up 8:28, 6 users, 1.64, 0.76, 0.54 > > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz Neuromancer 11:07:06 up 1:45, 6 users, 0.76, 0.54, 0.58
