Re: [squid-users] about wccp

Hmm.. are you using WCCP or are you using policy routing?

WCCP automatically detects that the cache is no longer responding after a
short timeout.

policy routing does not.

Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m
Squid Hacker

On Tuesday 04 December 2001 13.01, Raquel Lopes wrote:

> I configured my router do transparently redirect Web traffic (using WCCP)
> to a cache server. Everythig is functioning perfectly when my cache server
> is on. However I realized a strange behavior: even when the cache server is
> off, the router continues to redirect the Web traffic to the cache server
> and all my clients cannot navigate on the Internet. Did you perceive that?
> In my opinion, withou falt tolerance, the WCCP solution isn't satisfactory.
> When the server dies I have to disable WCCP or change the access-list
> redirect policy on the router. So, it isn't a reasonable solution, at least
> for me!! Do you know any solution for my problem? Please... help me!!!

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