Hi, Followup question regarding WCCP.
How long does it take to refresh cached data in squid? Will wccp be able to detect if the cached data is already a few hours old? Lets say for news websites that are cached. Thanks! regards, Chris On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Dracul <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks adrian, > > >That takes time - the WCCPv2 router will take a while to time out the > >now-unreachable server. It would be possible to hack in some code to try > >sending a last "gasping breath" packet to the WCCPv2 router to say the > >cache is about to disappear, but it won't save existing connections. > > So will user in the network , "feel" the turnover of packets like they > would just have some momentary > lapse of connection (browsing or downloading via http) > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Adrian Chadd <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009, Dracul wrote: >> > Hi List, >> > >> > I'm planning to setup WCCP + Squid. >> >> Hi! >> >> > If the squid server should be offline or the squid process dies, will >> the >> > users? port 80 requests automatically redirect to the ?live? internet >> > connection?? >> >> Yes! >> >> > Because in old "forced" redirection configurations, if the squid process >> > dies or should the squid server be unreachable for some reason, user >> will >> > see a browser error. >> >> Indeed. >> >> > >From what I understand with WCCP documentation, if the squid dies or >> the >> > server is unreachable, the network should automatically redirect the >> users >> > to the gateway, without >> >> That takes time - the WCCPv2 router will take a while to time out the >> now-unreachable server. It would be possible to hack in some code to try >> sending a last "gasping breath" packet to the WCCPv2 router to say the >> cache is about to disappear, but it won't save existing connections. >> >> > any disruption of any kind to their browsing experience. Are my >> assumptions >> > correct? Thanks! >> >> >> >> adrian >> >> >> -- >> - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid >> Support - >> - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - >> > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
