[afnog] FreeBsd5.2 + Squid + Wccp-v2

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 17 June 2004 15:22, Volven_res wrote:

>
> I am using FreeBsd Ver 5.2, Squid-2.2.STABLE5...

From what I know, Cisco's WCCP v1 is supported from Squid-2.3 upward.

> with the patch for wccp-v2

Haven't tried to patch WCCP into Squid before, but just to ask, any particular 
reason you want to run Squid-2.2 still? I know it's been tested to be quite 
the fastest Squid (contentious), but a lot of bugs have been fixed and new 
features added since then.

>
> ANy directions, would be welcome..

At the time, Squid didn't support WCCP v2, but since this version is now 
open-standards, perhaps it does, haven't really followed that much. You might 
want to confirm your patch supports WCCP v2 with Cisco.

Just a tip, setting up a transparent caching Squid (for the first time) can be 
daunting. I like to set it up/test it step-by-step:

 o First test Squid as a direct proxy as configured in the browser.

 o If that works, then test Squid transparently through the server, by causing 
   the server to act like it's a firewall gateway between 2 LAN's (IPfw).

 o If that works, put Squid on your production network, and use a route-map on
   your router to make sure all HTTP traffic is intercepted and routed back to
   the Squid cache server.

 o If that works, start playing with WCCP.

Mark.

>
> Regards
>
> Volven
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