[21286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WCCP talk..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Tue Nov 10 11:25:20 1998
From: alex@nac.net
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:04:38 -0500 (EST)
To: lincoln dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981110090643.00a89bd0@203.103.99.66>
> 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?
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