Re: [squid-users] Multicast Question

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:11:47 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, J Thomas Hancock wrote:

> Is there a significant performance increase? Instead of sending an ICP
> query to each peer, I only send the packet out once, but I will still get
> the same number of responses.
>
> Will multicast scale better than just using a peer relationship?

The difference is marginal with most modern network interfaces, but if you
have very many peers in the group (lets say 10 or more) then it may be
worthwhile.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Dec 09 2004 - 09:53:11 MST

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