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From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
To: Randy Smith <randys@amigo.net>
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Subject: Re: IPFW as load balancer
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Greetings!

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Randy Smith wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to use IPFW to do load balancing? I want to do create a
Yes it is.

> trasparent proxy to a cluster of Squid caches. I was thinking of something
> along the lines of:
>
> add prob .33 fwd <cacheA>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80
> add prob .50 fwd <cacheB>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80
> add          fwd <cacheC>,3128 tcp from <my-net> to any 80
>
> Does this make sense or is there a better solution?
Mayb 'ipfw add pipe N... && ipfw pipe N config....' may help. Look at
manpage ipfw(8) for details on 'traffic shaping' (as this feature
called in man).

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