[18552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Packet Shapers"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Wed Aug 5 13:20:28 1998
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:14:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: Lincoln Dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
cc: Christian Kuhtz <ck@bellsouth.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199807311225.WAA22845@interlink.com.au>
On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Lincoln Dale wrote:
>
> (nb, yes, cisco do have WCCP - however, with it effectively being a
> proprietary protocol, and whilst some of the functionality is possible in
> policy-based-routing, you lose out big time when your cache isn't functioning
> and the router is still (blindly) feeding it all the http-flows).
>
If a Cache Engine goes down - the remainder of the farm will
redistribute the load - if the farm is unresponsive the core router will
stop redirecting port 80 until such a time as it can start communicating
with a cache speaking WCCP once again.
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I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net
