Re: [squid-users] checking link availability

Hi Henrik,

At 11.47 20/08/2003, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10.25, aqil wrote:
>
> > Is it possible that squid can can interpret the ping result ? How ?
>
>Have the test program you use modify or replace squid.conf and then
>issue a "squid -k reconfigure".
>
> > What is squid's pinger all about?
>
>No. The Squid pinger is about measuring roundtrip times to be able to
>select the best path for the request in a cache mesh involving many
>Squid servers distributed over a large network.
>
> > Where to find more about pinger?
>
>See the Squid documentation relating to icmp.
>
>Regards
>Henrik

There is an old post on this list about this:

http://www1.it.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200111/0655.html

And an interesting article:

http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/08/02/offline_squid.html

I think it would be a great future for Squid.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 06:18:41 MDT