Re: Thinking about ICP

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Jonathan Larmour wrote:

> At 20:02 02/08/97 +1000, Peter Marelas wrote:
> >
> >We currently have this problem at a National Exchange Point where we have
> >many siblings querying each other over multiple WAN's.
> >
> >The idea I put forward was to "cluster" the siblings in groups of 8 like so:
> >
> >
> > [ 8 cluser sibling ] [ 8 cluster sibling ]
> > x x
> > x x
> > x x
> > [ ICP relay ]
> > x x
> > x x
> > x x
> > [ 8 cluser sibling ] [ 8 cluster sibling ]
>
> Isn't the current thinking to make the ICP relay a parent of the clusters,
> with all the clusters as siblings? The parent wouldn't necesssarily have to
> have any cache space for itself, it could just do the fetching from
> neighbours and pass them back.
>
> Jonathan L.
>
Yes..
But im not sure it will work with the current ICP implementation.
We dont want the ICP relay (Parent) fetching non cached data.
Need to test.

Regards
Peter Marelas

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