Re: how does this work exactly networking wise?

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Matt Ashfield wrote:

> HI All,
>
> I am running squid on AIX. I got a call the other day from a person on my
> campus complaning of receiving 1500byte pings from my webcache box. I did
> some monitoring and noticed that it seems when a request hits my webcache,
> my webcache then does a ping of the server being requested. Is this standard
> practice? Or am I reading this wrong? If this is standard practice, why does
> the ping packet have to be so large?

squid does send ICMP, only if you compile with --enable-icmp.

It should not be sending 1500 byte ICMP packets.

I suggest you run tcpdump to confirm that they are indeed 1500 bytes.
If so, we have a problem and we can track it down.

Duane W.
Received on Wed Mar 08 2000 - 22:00:16 MST