Re: [squid-users] WCCP on Squid 2.6 (URGENT)

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006, Dumpolid Exeplish wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> or abot a week now, i have been trying to configure WCCP (V2) on Squid
> to work with a Cisco 3640 router. Squid was able to register with the
> router (this was aftr i configured gre tunnels, and enable iptables
> redirect). Now my network administrator says he would like to have
> WCCP enabled on a layer 2 (because we would be implementing this on a
> 6509) and also that Squid should be configured to register to a
> multicats ip address so that several routers withing this group can
> get the registration request and use the squid box together.
> i have tested the multicast ip address with the 3640 but the router
> was unable to register this. i think it has to do with the fact that
> the Squid box is not enabled for multicast.
>
> so
>
> 1) is it possible to use Squid's WCCP capabilities with a multicast address?

Hm, I've seen the WCCPv2 multicast support but I don't think there's
code in Squid-2.6 to use it.

> 2) is it possible to register with more than 1 cisco router

Yes; but i haven't yet got an example of how its done up on the Wiki.
I'll keep you posted with my progress. There's a few things which may
need changing in the WCCPv2 code - specifically to allow one Squid to
register L2 -and- GRE depending upon the router.

> 3) is it possible to do layer 2 WCCP as against layer 3 ?

This is implemeted based on the actual equipement -
router routers (eg 2600, 3600, 7200) speak WCCPv2 w/ GRE and not L2.
TCAM-based routers (eg 3550, 4500, 6500, 7600) speak WCCPv2 w/ L2.
I don't recall there being an option to use L2 redirection on the
2651, 3640 or 7204 I've got here.

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