> 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?
> - is it fault tolerant? If squid crashes, if the box crashes, does it
> go DIRECT?
>
> Squid box is PIII-500 with 512Mb RAM, 18GIG Ultra2-LVD. Router is 3640
> IOS 12.0.5T2 with 80Mb RAM.
If the machine, or machines that are running squid crash, hang or
otherwise fail to operate then the connections will not be redirected. The
same is true of the squid process.
However it will probably take about 20 - 30 seconds for the time out to
occur.
glenn
Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 12:58:40 MST
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