11 Nov
1998
11 Nov
'98
3:44 p.m.
At 11:04 AM 11/10/98 -0500, alex@nac.net wrote:
i believe WCCP is more a heartbeat mechanism - the router will age WCCP 'hello' packets and expire them. presumably if it doesn't hear one of the cache engines 'check in', it'll stop forwarding traffic to it.
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. cheers, lincoln.