[H-GEN] Squid cache selection

[Michael Anthon]

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I set this up yesterday and I'm a bit confused as to why it didn't work the
way I expected it to...

cache_peer proxy.provider1.com.au parent 3128 3130 no-query weight=2
cache_peer proxy.provider2.com.au parent 3128 3130 no-query weight=1

I had 2 gateways on the LAN and had added a host route to the proxy machine
to reach provider1 via the link to provider1.  This worked quite nicely in
that I could access a page and it would be loaded from the provider1 proxy.


I then disconnected the link to provider1 to see if it would then get pages
from provider2, and it didn't.  All I got was a page from squid with
something like "(101) network unreachable", which was perfectly correct, but
not what I had expected.  I had expected squid to then attempt the proxy
from provider2.

Can anyone point out what I may have done wrong?  Or is there a different
setting somewhere I have missed?

Cheers
Michael Anthon


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