Re: WCCP talk..

[alex () nac net]

> 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?


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