WCCP talk..
alex at nac.net
alex at nac.net
Wed Nov 11 04:05:00 UTC 1998
That I can accept.
But, I still have one fundamental argument, which is to ensure true and
absolute reliability, a machine should not be verifying its own health.
My other concern is that now that it is licensable, will the other cache
manufacturers do it properly also?
> I haven't yet encountered a situation where the cache was having a problem
> and yet was still responding and talking WCCP to the router.
>
> When our Cache Engines have experienced problems, they have removed
> themselves from the available pool or stopped responding to WCCP (which,
> in turn, caused them to be removed).
>
> In short, I believe there's a very strong mechanism to check all
> functions of the cache before saying "hey, I'm okay here".
>
> /cah
>
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