Re: [squid-users] checking link availability

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:47:20 +0200

On Wednesday 20 August 2003 10.25, aqil wrote:

> Is it possible that squid can can interpret the ping result ? How ?

Have the test program you use modify or replace squid.conf and then
issue a "squid -k reconfigure".

> What is squid's pinger all about?

No. The Squid pinger is about measuring roundtrip times to be able to
select the best path for the request in a cache mesh involving many
Squid servers distributed over a large network.

> Where to find more about pinger?

See the Squid documentation relating to icmp.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 03:48:55 MDT

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