RE: [squid-users] Squid on NT with WCCP

We just finished our WCCP / cache running on a Dell box, with RH9 squid
25s5, it required patching the kernel, patching Squid, and some iptable
redirects.. I do have a good set of documentation I will post a link
with the document when I get it done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:06 PM
To: steve.bondy@tembec.com
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid on NT with WCCP

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 steve.bondy@tembec.com wrote:

> I'm not using the NT/2000 box for routing, just to run squid.

If you plan on using WCCP your OS must support WCCP. It is not
sufficient
to just have WCCP control channel support in Squid, you also need WCCP
data channel support in the low level TCP/IP stack to allow the server
to
act on the redirected packets once Squid and the router has agreed on
the
use of WCCP.

This is also the reason why you need to load special WCCP drivers on
Linux
or FreeBSD proxy servers in a WCCP setup. WCCP is quite different from
normal TCP/IP networking and is not supported by default by the TCP/IP
stacks.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Mar 19 2004 - 06:39:44 MST