Load Balancing With Proxy Or Firewall - F-SECURE INTERNET GATEKEEPER WINDOWS 2000-2003 SERVER 6.61 Administrator's Manual

F.3.3

Load Balancing with Proxy or Firewall

Figure F-4 F-Secure Anti-Virus for Internet Gateways deployed with HTTP proxy
Clients have to configure web browsers to use a HTTP proxy. If
the upstream proxy is transparent, clients do not require any
configuration. Using round-robin or some other load-sharing
model, the upstream proxy redirects requests to proxy peers
specified in its configuration file.
Benefits
Fairly easy to implement.
If a company already has a proxy server, clients do not need to be
configured in any way.
Squid
Advanced Deployment Options
Load balancing can be achieved with
cache_peer options. See example
configuration here:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/
Hierarchy-Tutorial/tutorial-7.html#ss7.3
SQUID Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/
FAQ.html
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