[BSD-INDIA] Is this load balancing Idea for squid ok while using route-to or is there a better one?

[Siju George]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 3:34 PM, Raja Subramanian
<rajasuperman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/07, Siju George <sgeorge.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 22, 2007 12:48 PM, Rajkumar S <rajkumars at gmail.com> wrote:
> Step 1:  run multiple instances of squid, one per WAN interface
>
>
> Step 2: configure squid so that each instance is uses a WAN IP as source
> for external connections.  By default squid will bind to 0.0.0.0:0 when it
> makes an outgoing connection, and the kernel decides to choose the interface
> with the default gateway and so the problem.  Override this functionality by
> explicitly getting squid to use a specific WAN address.
>
> Eg. Squid 1 will use $EXT_IF1_IP as source address.
> Squid 2 will use $EXT_IF2_IP and so on.
>

Hi Raja,

Could you please exlain how this can be accomplished?

thanks and regards

Siju