RE: [squid-users] WCCP and Redhat8

Joe,
 Thanks for the assistance. Has anyone compiled the readily available
ip_wccp.c module on a RedHat8 box?

 I'll be trying later today to see if it compiles.

--Pat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Cooper [mailto:joe@swelltech.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 5:01 PM
> To: PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] WCCP and Redhat8
>
>
> Comments inline:
>
> PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us wrote:
> > Thanks for all the responses everyone, but there's
> something that's just not
> > catching.....
> >
> >
> > I've done the squid.conf, have it listening on 8080, and a
> virtual port of
> > 80.
> >
> > I have my cisco router configured to send web-cache to the
> squid box, and I
> > can see packets being redirected.
> >
> > However, any web traffic at the time isn't making it to squid.
>
> Have you read all of the FAQ on transparent proxying and WCCP and
> implemented a redirection rule on the Squid machine as
> documented there?
> Redirection at the Cisco is only the first step to
> getting traffic
> to your Squid process. It looks like you've only read the Cisco
> configuration part of the FAQ.
>
> Do you have an appropriately patched ip_gre module, or an
> ip_wccp module
> loaded that knows what to do with WCCP GRE encapsulated packets?
>
> And, if using ip_gre, have you configured a gre interface (you don't
> need a tunnel setup, as some online docs suggest--it is easier not to
> use any explicit configuration...just turn on a dummy address on gre0
> and it will work)?
>
> > doing a netstat -A inet on the squid box shows that port 80
> isn't open for
> > connections.
> >
> > Is that right? should I just change the http_port to 80?
>
> That is correct and there's no need to alter the Squid
> http_port unless
> it makes you happy to do so.
>
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Pat
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> >>Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:12 AM
> >>To: PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us
> >>Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> >>Subject: Re: [squid-users] WCCP and Redhat8
> >>
> >>
> >>The standard instructions should work just fine. There is not much
> >>difference between any of the RedHat versions based on
> >>Linux-2.4 when it
> >>comes to how to implement WCCP.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>Henrik
> >>
> >>
> >>tor 2002-12-12 klockan 14.57 skrev PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us:
> >>
> >>>Hey all,
> >>> I've been through the archives of the mailing list, the
> >>
> >>websearches and
> >>
> >>>everything pretty deeply (atleast according to me).
> >>>
> >>> I'm extremely sorry if this is a no-brainer, but has
> >>
> >>anyone setup a Redhat8
> >>
> >>>box with WCCP as a squid server?
> >>>
> >>> If not, what's the best redhat OS to use for it?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Pat
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <joe@swelltech.com>
> Web caching appliances and support.
> http://www.swelltech.com
>
Received on Thu Dec 19 2002 - 10:34:13 MST