Cache peers or neighbors
Cache peers or neighbors are the other proxy servers with which our Squid proxy server can:
Share its cache with to reduce bandwidth usage and access time
Use it as a parent or sibling proxy server to satisfy its clients' requests
Use it as a parent or sibling proxy server
We normally deploy more than one proxy server in the same network to share the load of a single server for better performance. The proxy servers can use each other's cache to retrieve the cached web documents locally to improve performance. Let's have a brief look at the directives provided...
