Re: WCCP talk..

[lincoln dale <ltd () interlink com au>]

At 11:04 AM 11/10/98 -0500, alex () nac net wrote:
> > i believe WCCP is more a heartbeat mechanism - the router will age WCCP
> > 'hello' packets and expire them.  presumably if it doesn't hear one of the
> > cache engines 'check in', it'll stop forwarding traffic to it.
>
> Your missing what I said. What if the cache continues sending WCCP
> packets, but the cache itself has died?

i don't think i am --
i would assume that the cache design would perform suitable sanity checks
prior to sending out a heartbeat.  if the design is sound, the cache would
not be capable of sending out WCCP packets if it has 'died' in some way.

cheers,

lincoln.