On 18.02.07 14:38, Philipp Leusmann wrote: > I have set up a transparent squid for my LAN which works great without a > parent cache. I would now like to use the parent cache of my provider > but it doesn´t seem to support ICP. try if it supports HTCP. Ask your ISP. Also, ask if it supports cache digests. > As far as I have understood, when using a parent cache squid first > checks if the parent cache has the request cached and if not forward the > request to the original site and caches the returned objects. Correct? yes. > This makes sense when using ICP. you can have that without HTCP/ICP too, but is't better/faster to have one of those 2 protocols supported on parent cache. > But since I would like to limit requests going through my internet > uplink I think, without ICP, it would make sense to first look up an > object in the local cache. how do you mean this? do you have more thn one caches? configure them as siblings, then. > If it doesn´t exist locally forward the request to the parent cache which > takes then care if it has cached the object and maybe forwards the request > to the original site. I would then need squid to cache the returned > objects locally no matter if they come from the original site or the > parent cache. squid caches the content fetched from remote caches, unless you set proxy-only option for those caches. > Would that be possible? Is this the behaviour of a sibling cache > eventually? In some FAQ I read that sibling caches should not be located > towards the route to the internet, so that is why I am asking. -- 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. I intend to live forever - so far so good.
