CentOS - Feb 2009 - squid HA failover?

I'm running a pair of squids as an internal cache for some intermediate 
data used by a web server farm and currently doing failover by going 
through an F5 bigip.  However, I'd like to avoid the bigip and use 
heartbeat since there are only two machines.   I don't need to sync any 
content since it is a fast-changing cache and either machine can handle 
everything.  Is it possible to add a floating IP with heartbeat and cut 
over to it slowly while also still using the existing IP's on that 
subnet?  The documentation I've seen implies that it is bad to use the 
real IP's.  If heartbeat can't do this, would it work to use vrrp?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

Les Mikesell wrote:
> I'm running a pair of squids as an internal cache for some intermediate
> data used by a web server farm and currently doing failover by going
> through an F5 bigip.  However, I'd like to avoid the bigip and use
> heartbeat since there are only two machines.   I don't need to sync any
I use bigip even if there is only 1 machine, using heartbeat
sounds like it will make it quite a bit more complicated,
load balancers make life easier..since you already have a
good one(a pair hopefully), keep using it!

I use load balancers wherever possible even with 1 machine
so I can make changes to the system(s) in the pool without
impact. e.g. if I want to replace hardware, I can install the
new hardware, add it to the pool and remove the old system.
Of course it's ideal to always have at least 2.

nate