[21306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WCCP talk..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lincoln dale)
Tue Nov 10 20:58:19 1998
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:44:27 -0800
To: alex@nac.net
From: lincoln dale <ltd@interlink.com.au>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@adsu.bellsouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811101104030.18321-100000@iago.nac.net>
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.
