Re: WCCP

On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Chris Conn wrote:

> I have an experimental Squid box (2.2S5) and I was looking into trying
> out WCCP with my Cisco router. I am going to get some spare ethernet
> ports for my router, so I thought I could plug a reverse cable from the
> router to the squid box. My questions are:
>
> - is it worth it? Does anybody see an improvement/advantage of using
> WCCP?

Router load seems significantly lower when using WCCP rather than an IP
policy route map.

> - is it fault tolerant? If squid crashes, if the box crashes, does it
> go DIRECT?

Yup...and fairly quickly. And when squid comes back to life and starts
sending "hellos", the router will start forwarding again.

-marc

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Marc Nicholas
Hippocampus OSD, Inc. "Industrial Strength Internet Solutions"
125 John Street, Suite 100, Toronto, ON M5V 2E2, CANADA
416.979.9000 x 11 fax 416.979.8223 http://www.hippocampus.net
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Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 13:55:27 MST