At 11:46 AM 4/12/99 -0700, Justin Pietsch wrote:
>>
>> Just configure your ms-proxy to use the Squid as a parent. CARP is probably
>> not
>> a good plan. The result is that the MS-proxy only talks to the Squid. No
>> fallback and no talking between the lower level MS-proxies.
>
>Why is CARP not a good plan? Do you mean in general?
CARP is a load balancing protocol and not a cache-sharing or cache-fallback
protocol. Judging from performance of some busy Squids I know about I don't
think loadbalancing is needed in your case.
>I was planning on writing some perl so that MS-proxy can have what it
>wants for fallback/resiliency and I can still use squid.
Great! Make your MS proxy do ICP or detect failed tcp connections and you have
a fallback.
>Justin
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