Hello all, thank you for your suggestions, but as this is transparent device (ie it acts just like a wire) wccp is not and option. Beside that, it can cache bittorrent traffic which I belive is not wccp friendly :)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Ryan West <[email protected]> wrote: > Pavel, > >> -----Original Message----- >> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:56 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [c-nsp] Forwarding traffic to "transparent" device >> >> Hi, >> >> as I am not native english speaker I don't know how to name my problem >> but I will try to give as much details as possible. >> Here it is, I have Cisco 7600 wich is core switch, and it have one >> uplink to our edge router (it is SVI interface). Now, I would like to >> insert >> a transparent cache engine. That would not be a problem, except that >> connection between edge and core is fiber and >> transparent device has only a copper ports. I know that I can buy >> media converters, but what I would really like before >> is to connect cache to core and forward all (to and from internet) via >> cache and then back to core and so on. >> Something like this: >> >> >> ------------ >> | EDGE | >> ------------ >> | >> --|-- >> | C | >> | O |-------CACHE >> | R |-------- >> | E | >> ----- >> >> USERS >> >> >> >> Is this possible at all, and is there are any other solutions? >> > > Are you sure your core and cache engine do not support WCCP? That might be > your best bet. The VLAN mapping option will also work, but if your caching > engine decides to fail and does support a hardware based fail-open, no more > traffic will flow. > > -ryan > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
