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Ok.

On 10/21/08, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Scrolling back to my first response in this thread:
>
>  http://marc.info/?l=squid-users&m=122366977412432&w=2
>
>
>  On tis, 2008-10-21 at 21:18 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote:
>  > Hi Henrik,
>  >
>  > Thanks for your reply. What would be your suggestion for a CARP setup
>  > which would provide an efficient caching system?
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance.
>  >
>  > -Paras
>  >
>  > On 10/16/08, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > > On tor, 2008-10-16 at 09:42 +0530, Paras Fadte wrote:
>  > >  > Hi Henrik,
>  > >  >
>  > >  > In CARP setup, if one uses same weightage for all the parent caches
>  > >  > how would the requests be handled ? will the requests be equally
>  > >  > forwarded to all the parent caches ? if the weightages differ then
>  > >  > won't all the requests be forwarded to a particular parent cache only
>  > >  > which has the highest weightage ?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > CARP is a hash algorithm. For each given URL there is one CARP parent
>  > >  that is the designated one.
>  > >
>  > >  The weights control how large portion of the URL space is assigned to
>  > >  each member.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  > Also if I do not use the "proxy-only" option in the squid which
>  > >  > forwards the requests to parent caches, won't less number of requests
>  > >  > be forwarded to parent caches since it will be already cached by squid
>  > >  > in front of the parent caches?
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Correct. And it's completely orthogonal to the use of CARP. As I said
>  > >  most setups do not want to use proxy-only. proxy-only is only useful in
>  > >  some very specific setups. These setups MAY be using CARP or some other
>  > >  peering method, the choice of peering method is unrelated to proxy-only.
>  > >
>  > >  Regards
>  > >
>  > > Henrik
>  > >
>  > >
>
>

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