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Chapter 3
Web Proxy Caching
Obeying NNTP control messages
The Traffic Server default setup for nonfeed news groups is to periodically check the parent server for new
groups, cancelled articles, and new articles. If you have enabled these periodic checks in the Configure:
Protocols page, you do not need to enable obeying control messages.
Traffic Server can be configured to obey NNTP control messages. In particular, you can enable Traffic Server
to obey
cancel
,
addgroup
, and
rmgroup
messages in the Configure: Protocols page of Traffic Manager.
For example, if you select “Obey cancel control messages,” Traffic Server pulls
cancel
messages
automatically in order to obey them.
Client bandwidth throttling
You can limit the amount of bandwidth allotted to clients for downloading articles. Clients that attempt to
exceed the bandwidth limit will have each operation slowed in order to keep their bandwidth consumption to
the limit. You set the bandwidth limit (the client speed throttle) in the NNTP section of the Protocols page in
Traffic Manager Configure mode.