Re: [squid-users] icp port problem

Squid don't care what digit you type in the ICP port when no-query is
specified. Using any number is fine. I use 0 to empasis the fact that
ICP is not used in any way (not even to UDP echo port 7).

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
TomC wrote:
> 
> Henrik,
> You mean I should do that?
> cache_peer hostname sibling 8080 0 proxy-only no-query
> Thanks
> 
> Brian
> 
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> 
> > TomC wrote:
> >
> > > I have some question. The squid is compiled with enable cache digest so
> > > I think the cache peer will communicate with cache digest. But I don't
> > > know why another system engineer use "3130" instead of  "7" in the entry
> > > "cache peer" as I read the doc of squid that they say that we should use
> > > "7" if we are not using icp. Why?
> >
> > If no-query is specified then it does not matter as the value is not
> > used. I commonly use 0 when specifying no-query.
> >
> > 7 is used when you have a non-ICP peer but still want to query it before
> > sending requests there (no-query not specified). In such case Squid will
> > send the ICP queries to port 7 which is the UDP echo port.
> >
> > --
> > Henrik Nordstrom
> > Squid Hacker