Re: [squid-users] IPC Broadcast Option?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 23:48:29 +0200

On Friday 09 May 2003 19.29, Brian White wrote:
> I've been reading the squid documentation about IPC between cache
> peers. It seems that connections can be either direct or
> multicast. What about broadcast?

multicast is a controlled form of broadcast.

> I ask because on my network, all caches can communicate over a
> common ethernet segment. Thus, it would be trivial to just point
> each cache to use the broadcast address for that segment to make
> requests of all other servers.

What is wrong with using a multicast address?

Regards
Henrik

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