WCCP talk..
alex at nac.net
alex at nac.net
Wed Nov 11 04:16:03 UTC 1998
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, lincoln dale wrote:
> >Your missing what I said. What if the cache continues sending WCCP
> >packets, but the cache itself has died?
>
> i don't think i am --
> i would assume that the cache design would perform suitable sanity checks
> prior to sending out a heartbeat. if the design is sound, the cache would
> not be capable of sending out WCCP packets if it has 'died' in some way.
You can't be serious.
A cache may check itself, but my arguement is that this self-checking
scheme may fail, seeing itself as alive, but not able to actually serve
requests.
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