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?

On 24.05 23:50, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> 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.

so when the destination server has more IP address, they are
NOT being checked for lowest RTT, only neighbour proxies are.
Right?

> 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.

of course.

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