Thanks Adrian. FYI I'm using WCCPv1 and I'm not a very good programer. I can look into codes and understand the flow but it takes me much time. So can you please point me to the files/code where I can look. And I didn't understand what you meant by looking into better 'routing'... Thanks again. On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006, Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I have a question regarding squid and WCCP. I've noticed an issue with the > > wccp hash bit alotment to individual cache in a farm for quite some time > > and have searched alot with no luck. The problem is that in a farm of > > squid cache (lets say 3 cache servers) connected to a WCCP router, if a > > server gets disconnected for 10-15 minutes or more and then gets > > reconnected, the hash bits alotted to that cache is changed. this means > > that the urls previously served by this server would now go to another > > cache and thus would take some time to rebuild the cache data. > > Yup, thats one of the things that needs to be fixed in the Squid WCCPv2 support. > > > I've searched through alot and have come to understand that its the squid > > that informs the wccp router which bits are to be assigned to which squid > > server. Is there a way to change the default behaviour of assigning the > > hash bits to assign them in order of ip address manybe ?? > > You could modify the code to change the hash algorithm; or look into > better 'routing' to bump requests over to the cache that would've handled > it in the past. > > I haven't looked into it that much but its on my list of things that need > fixing with the Squid WCCPv2 support. > > > > Adrian > -- Manoj Rajkarnikar System Administrator Vianet Communications Pvt Ltd Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. (PH)977-1-5546410
