Re: Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9 (fwd)

The Alteon products are not quite what the doctor ordered, or at least,
they're not what this doctor can afford. The initial verbal quote was about
$9k for the hardware, and then an additional $3k for the software. Gaaa!

The hardware has two gigabit ethernet ports (overkill for this application)
and then (?) 8 10/100 ports. Once again, all I really need is a 4-port 10bT
swrouter that can be had for $3k. This can be easily done with a Linux or
BSD-based box, but I don't WANT such a cumbersome animal in the path of the
important data. I want something that is "invisible" from the higher layers
of the (broken) OSI model.

<sigh> Back to policy routing... Good news: policy routing is
fast-switched in 11.3 of the "standard issues" releases on 2xxx/4xxx
routers.

JT

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Matthew Petach wrote:

> Recently, George M. Ellenburg talked about "Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9", and
> said
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to set up some sort of NAT in a Cisco 2501 Router to
> > have the router blindly redirect all packets destined for port 80 to
> > our proxy server on port 3128 so our users don't have to specify a
> > proxy server address in their browsers?
>
> Alteon has added such a feature into their AceSwitch 180 line
> of fast ethernet switches; it has the advantage of doing the
> redirection at layer 2, so there's no IP "hop" associated with
> the redirection, unlike with a router-based solution. It's
> pretty cool. It'll even do load-balancing among several
> squid caches with the redirection!
>
> Definitely worth checking out!
>
> Matt
>
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> >
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> > very selective about who it decides to make friends with."
> >
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Received on Wed Dec 31 1997 - 14:32:02 MST