Howdy!

> Ive read through icp rfc's and some other docs, and I have a few
> unanswered questions, which may be faq, in which case, just give
> me a pointer.
> 
> - if i have two caches, can they both be setup as sibblings without a
> parent ?  (What I am after is that if the client request is a cache
> miss on the cache that received the request and also on the sibling,
> then the requester cache goes direct to origin server, since there is
> no parent)

This can be done. A cache can be called a "neighbor" instead of a
"parent".
  
> - if a client request is a cache miss, but the sibling has the
> content (ie a cache hit on the sibling), does the requested content
> go from sibling to client ? (What I am after here is that as much as
> possible cached content is not repliacted on both caches, since this
> would result in a waste of disk space)

I don't think that this can be done with just neighbors . . .

There is a concept of ICP clusters where many caches become one logical
cache. It has been a long time since I had set one up, etc.

---larry >:)
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