Re: WCCP2

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:

> 1. You can use wccp2 patch, floating somewhere on the internet. I used
> it, it is stable, but it supports only "one router - one cache"
> configuration, and it is not easy to change this.

The patch is pretty well anchored on the Internet:

   http://devel.squid-cache.org/

but it still lacks many features.

> In both cases you will need to do usual wccp2 setup steps, e.g
> patching kernel to allow decapsulation of wccp2 packets (I have one
> sample at http://stingr.net/l/linux-wccp-gre.patch) and set up
> NAT.

Would you mind massaging the GRE Linux maintainer to try to get WCCP (v1 &
v2) support into the Linux kernel?

Now with Linux-2.6 no longer feature frozen and both open protocols it
should not be too hard I hope..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Sep 11 2004 - 12:06:46 MDT