Re: Cisco WCCP and Squid

Recently, Ming Lu talked about "Re: Cisco WCCP and Squid", and said
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> Please tell me the URL for that product!

For the ACEswitch 110 that we are using in-house for doing
Squid proxying, here's the data sheet for it:

http://www.alteon.com/swisheet.html

For those with even more bandwidth needs, they've
released an even faster box:

http://www.alteon.com/a180ds.html

It's the most potent load-balancing, port 80-redirecting
piece of hardware I've found that fits in 1u of rack space.

Matt
 
> _ming
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> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Matthew Petach wrote:
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> ->Recently, David J N Begley talked about "Re: Cisco WCCP and Squid", and said
> ->>
> ->> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> ->>
> ->> > to redirect web requests to a wccp engine on ethernet3/1. The question is,
> ->> > will Squid handle Cisco redirects?
> ->>
> ->> As far as I can tell, Cisco hasn't published *any* technical
> ->> specifications on the WCCP protocol (I can't find anything on CCO, nor in
> ->> any of the Internet drafts held by the IETF) - subsequently, only Cisco
> ->> products (or products from vendors under some agreement with Cisco) can
> ->> use the WCCP protocol (until someone with enough spare money, time and
> ->> generosity decides to reverse engineer the protocol I s'pose).
> ->>
> ->> > This would be a better solution than what John proposes in the FAQ since if
> ->> > the proxy server is down then the service is down, whereas the cisco
> ->> > implementation is supposed to sense whether the proxy server is up or down.
> ->>
> ->> Yes, this would be a "nice" addition to Squid; but without any
> ->> specifications, what's the chance of WCCP appearing in Squid? Pretty slim
> ->> I'd say.
> ->
> ->If you want the reliability of the WCCP without wanting to pay
> ->the full price for the Cisco solution, and you like Squid, I'll
> ->put a plug in again for the Alteon ACEswitch. You don't need to
> ->put route-maps into your Cisco and worry about process-switching
> ->all of your web traffic, it redirects port 80 for you, it allows
> ->you to have multiple Squid boxes hanging off the unit, with
> ->dynamic failover in case one of the unit stops responding, and
> ->it works at full wirespeed. Take a gigabit ethernet port in
> ->from your access pool, send a gigabit port out to the internet
> ->backbone router, and have 8 Squid boxes hanging off 100mb
> ->ethernet ports, with all port 80 traffic load-balanced among
> ->the 8 Squid boxes, and you've got a transparent proxy-cache
> ->that will beat the pants off anything to roll out of Cisco's
> ->labs, for a quarter the price. AND, you get to keep working
> ->with the Squid you know and love, source code and all.
> ->
> ->It didn't take much thinking for me to make the right choice.
> ->
> ->> If specs *do* become available, I'd be queuing up to be one of the first
> ->> beta-testers for WCCP support in Squid (I'd even try and code some of
> ->> it, damnit!).
> ->
> ->Or, simply go with the competitor, that's already using open
> ->protocols, supporting standard ICP between Squid boxes. If
> ->you're serious about transparent proxying, Alteon has the
> ->solution you're looking for.
> ->
> ->> Cheers..
> ->> dave
> ->
> ->I don't work for them, I don't even know what their building
> ->looks like, I'm just a really happy user of their box.
> ->
> ->Matt
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InterNex Information Services   |           Matthew Petach {MP59}
Senior Network Engineer         |           mpetach@internex.net
2306 Walsh Avenue               |           Tel: (408) 327-2211
Santa Clara, CA  95051          |           Fax: (408) 496-5484