Re: [squid-users] Parent proxy without ICP

Philipp Leusmann schrieb:
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas schrieb:
>
>> On 18.02.07 14:38, Philipp Leusmann wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have set up a transparent squid for my LAN which works great without a
>>> parent cache. I would now like to use the parent cache of my provider
>>> but it doesn�t seem to support ICP.
>>>
>>>
>> try if it supports HTCP. Ask your ISP. Also, ask if it supports cache
>> digests.
>>
>>
> I will try to ask, but since it is a very large provider and I didn�t
> find any information regarding that topic with google I don�t have much
> hope.
>
>>
>>
>>> But since I would like to limit requests going through my internet
>>> uplink I think, without ICP, it would make sense to first look up an
>>> object in the local cache.
>>>
>>>
>> how do you mean this? do you have more thn one caches? configure them as
>> siblings, then.
>>
>>
> I have one local cache running on my router to the internet (c1) and my
> ISP has one cache running (as I said most probably without ICP or HTCP)
> (c2).
> I desired the following behavior:
> Client request --> TCP_MISS from c1 ---> forward to c2
> --> TCP_MISS from c2 ---> c2 forwards to direct === c1
> caches response
> |
> |
> |
> -> TCP_HIT from c2
> === c1 caches response
> -> TCP_HIT from c1 === desirable behaviour
>
> I hope the above is readable in the post :) And understandable...
> currently the parent is configured with:
> cache_peer proxy.arcor-ip.net parent 8080 3130 no-query
> As proposed by Henrik I have
>
> prefer_direct off
> nonhierarchical_direct on
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Philipp
>
>
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Regards,
 Philipp
Received on Mon Feb 19 2007 - 06:42:22 MST