[Ilugc] Using More than one Proxy in same network
- From: mohan.tux@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan Sundaram)
- Date: Mon Feb 22 07:48:21 2010
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Varadharajan Mukundan
<srinathsmn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
Actually one SQUID Server is running already in main server
You can use that as main proxy server and have many proxy server depending on
it
I need one more SQUID Server to be run for a group of systems in same network
As far as i know, you can achieve this by making the new proxy server
refer to main proxy server or else you can create a NAT for the new
proxy server and make it also a main proxy server.
This is simple to set up. Let us say current server is S1 and is the
gateway for all the machines on the network. Setup S2 as a new server
and configure the browser on the clients to use S2 as a proxy. The
issue would be "how does one prevent users on these clients from
removing the proxy and going via S1 direct?".
The easiest method would be to segregate these set of machine into a
subnet physically with S2 as the gateway, or via static IPs which
users cannot change (assuming no root/ admin access) or configuring 2
separate VLANs with S2 being a member of both VLANs assuming your
switches support VLANs.
The end purpose is unclear though. Why would one want to use 2
different proxies for the same internet connection?
(a) Managing access to Internet? That can be done even with one well enough.
(b) Load one proxy one server becoming too heavy? Pretty rare to come by.
If the end purpose is made known, it is possible folks on this list
may come out with more elegant solutions.
-- Mohan Sundaram
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