MikroTik

Hi

Is it possible to configure the web proxy to use neighbors ?

Thanks

what neighbors do you mean?

I mean the configuration of sibling proxy which is willing to serve content it has on cache to another proxy server.

Currently MT 3.28 seems only to support parent or upstream proxy servers and not siblings/neighbors ? Or is there another way of achieving this....

no there is not, support is only for parent proxy

can support be added in future version? Thanks

So your proxy will ask the "sibling" one for HTTP objects and if the sibling does not have them - the MT proxy will downlaod them Not through the sibling?

So you need to combine the power of more than one web cache ? This can be done only using a new protocol that combines the caches themselves.

This looks like too much lines of code, could introduce many problems and instability. MikroTik OS is a small and fast Routing platform and anything too complex will ... make it into another product, so ... things are kept simple with RouterOS, as I have seen over the years.

Not having such crazy-a5s functionalities is more cost/benefit effective for most cases.

A way of combining the power of proxy caches is to use them in a tree-like structure with the most powerfull as the root.

Hi

Solution is to not use web proxy on MT but install transparent squid proxy which can already handle siblings.

Regards,
Andre Thomas