Re: Suggestion: remove ICMP stat display when using "disable-icmp"

Its not ICMP, its basically ICP Internet Cache Protocol..:-))

Its has totally different meaning then ICMP. Please Check squid home page
and read FAQ's for it ....

With Regards
Ahsan Khan
Sr. System Admin
Internet Division (OneNet)
Sun Communication Pvt. Ltd.
Pakistan
http://www.one.net.pk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Snyder" <swsnyder@home.com>
To: "Squid Mailing List" <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:03 PM
Subject: Suggestion: remove ICMP stat display when using "disable-icmp"

> When Squid v2.3S2 is built without the "--enable-snmp" options, no
> reference to snmp is seen in the runtime messages and statistics.
> That's reasonable behavior.
>
> When the "--enable-icmp" option is used, though, references to icmp
> still appear in Squid's output. For example:
>
> # client mgr:info | grep ICP
> Number of ICP messages received: 0
> Number of ICP messages sent: 0
> Number of queued ICP replies: 0
> ICP messages per minute: 0.0
> ICP Queries: 0.00000 0.00000
>
> And in cache.log at startup:
>
> Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 16.
>
> I am writing about a purely cosmetic issue. My desire not to have
> icmp support is in fact honored by Squid. (Despite the above start-up
> message, Squid is *not* using port 3130 for icmp communication.)
>
> My suggestion: do not generate icmp statistics/messages when icmp
> support is not enabled.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> *** Steve Snyder ***
>
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 15:03:01 MDT