RE: Microsoft CARP

Just note on point two: ISN'T THAT THE WHOLE IDEA??!!! ISN'T THAT THE
WHOLE POINT OF WEB CACHING?! Gotta love Micro$oft.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Chinen [SMTP:squid@deltron.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 1997 10:53 AM
> To: squid-users@nlanr.net
> Subject: Microsoft CARP
>
> I just reed the Cache Array Routing Protocol (
> http://www.microsoft.com/proxy/guide/CarpWP.asp?A=2&B=3 ) and they say
> that CARP is better than ICP because:
> 1.-ICP queries produce congestion. CARP use a deterministic request
> resolution path.
> 2.-ICP servers 'can rapidly evolve into essentially duplicates caches
> of
> the most frecuently requested URLs'.
>
> What I think is that MS does not understand quite well ICP:
> 1.- ICP are short UDP (conexionless) packets, also you can use
> multicast. In my case (I'm a ISP in Peru, and the link to USA is bad:
> 600ms minimun delay, 10% packet loss) ICP respond rapidly in changes
> in
> lines conditions. I dont understand quite well how deterministic
> request
> resolution path works, but I don't think that is as dynamic as ICP.
> 2.- If you dont want duplicates caches URLs you can use PROXY-ONLY
> parameter.
>
> Any other opinion?
>
>
> Paul Chinen
Received on Wed Oct 15 1997 - 06:28:22 MDT