Re: [squid-users] Traffic to single parent only

On Friday 22 February 2002 02:29, Squid Support (Henrik Nordstrom)
wrote:
> Squid do not normally try to figure out RTT times to origin
> servers.
>
> Maybe you have compiled your Squid with --enable-icmp? This enables
> some additional network probes. Not normally recommendable to use
> unless you have a good reason.
>
> To have Squid mostly use the parent while it is alive, set
> "prefer_direct off" and make the parent "default".

And I also recommend to make use of the no-query and connect_timeout
cache_peer options if there only is one parent.

-- 
MARA Systems AB, Giving you basic free Squid support
Customized solutions, packaged solutions and priority support
available on request