Re: [squid-users] questions about background-ping

On mån, 2008-08-25 at 12:49 +0800, Jeff Pang wrote:
> If I use it in reverse proxy, the parent is a realserver, then I can't
> use "background-ping" and "weighted-round-robin", is it?
> Since realserver doesn't accept ICP queries. Thanks.

You can still use ICP on the UDP ECHO port to measure network latency.

But as Squid also monitors the peers using TCP I am not sure you'll need
this... but if you have web servers which is on long-distance WAN
connections then maybe..

Regards
Henrik