> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >I currently run 3 cache servers on the same network, w/o different proxies > >and siblings. Can this structure benefit of using ICMP? On 24.05 23:50, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > I doubt so. > > Using ICMP would mainly benefit you if you participated in a complex > network mesh where ICMP would help giving you reasonable measurements on > the best way to route the request. so when the destination server has more IP address, they are NOT being checked for lowest RTT, only neighbour proxies are. Right? > If you only have 3 cache servers and they all are on the same network then > the paths available to each should be relatively equal, making the > benefits somewhat limited. > > If you have multiple outside peerings (or a large wan network with > multiple Internet connections to different ISPs) then ICMP comes to it's > best rights. of course. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
