Re: [squid-users] using ICMP - should I?

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

> I currently run 3 cache servers on the same network, w/o different proxies
> and siblings. Can this structure benefit of using ICMP?

I doubt so.

Using ICMP would mainly benefit you if you participated in a complex
network mesh where ICMP would help giving you reasonable measurements on
the best way to route the request.

If you only have 3 cache servers and they all are on the same network then
the paths available to each should be relatively equal, making the
benefits somewhat limited.

If you have multiple outside peerings (or a large wan network with
multiple Internet connections to different ISPs) then ICMP comes to it's
best rights.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue May 24 2005 - 15:50:37 MDT