Re: Squid 2 - ?huh? why two ICP ports?

[Henrik Nordstrom]

Steven Sporen wrote:
 
> Could somone explain why the need for two ports which look like they do the
> same thing.

A documentation error. The documentation for htcp_port should read
"sends and receives HTCP requests".  HTCP is a different protocol
similar to ICP.

> #  TAG: htcp_port
> #       The port number where Squid sends and receives ICP requests to
> #       and from neighbor caches.  Default is 4827.  To disable use
> #       "0".
> #
> #htcp_port 4827


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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker