How to make squid fail over between parent peers ?

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Issue

  • Squid with two parent cache peers is not able to forward requests exclusively to the first peer and leave the second one just for backup in case of failure.

  • What is the possibility that squid peer server will back each other up if there is network issue?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • squid
  • no ICP protocol in use

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