I'm having a problem getting wccp to work when there's a pix between my 
router and squid box.  When I put my squid box on the same segment as the 
router (no pix in the middle), it works beautifully.

There is _some_ communication going on when squid's behind the pix, because 
the router indicates it has found the cache (on the router, "sh ip wccp 
web-cache" shows "number of cache engines: 1".  When I turn off the squid 
box, the router shows "number of cache engines: 0".

I used a network sniffer to grab the traffic going to the squid box under 
both working (no pix) and non-working (pix in the middle) situations.  When 
things are working, there's some UDP packets back and forth on port 2048 
(the WCCP negotiation, I think).  Then, there's a number of IP packets with 
GRE headers going back and forth between the router and cache.

When the pix is in the middle, and I put the sniffer alongside the cache 
(so, I'm seeing the inbound stuff that made it through the pix and the 
outbound from the cache), the initial UDP traffic on port 2048 happens, but 
I see none of the GRE packets.  As I've been debugging this, I've opened up 
the access list on the pix to allow any IP from the router, and any ICMP 
from the router to the cache.  No difference.

The only reference I've seen to GRE when I search this list and the Cisco 
list is in reference to tunnelling.  Can someone clue me in how to allow 
GRE traffic through the PIX, or if I'm just completely insane for putting 
the cache behind the fw[0]?  I'm hoping it's an access-list thing, rather 
than some VPN morass ;-)

I can provide more details if needed.  IOS on the pix is 5.3, all the WCCP 
stuff is version 1.

TIA,

- Joe

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[0] the cache doesn't have any parent/child/sibling relationship to other 
cache's (it's standalone), so the whole issue about

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