Re: [squid-users] Whether we can redirect video traffic to squid 2.7 via porting mirror

I see , but it will be normal way , we can redirect full http traffic
via route-map or Wccp ,

but if we redirect part video traffic only , porting mirror + 302 http
packet will be safe way .

On Thursday 28 August 2014 at 17:51:04 (EU time), johnzeng wrote:
>> Hi , i have a switch , and i hope to redirect video traffic to Cache via
>> using Port mirroring feature
>> Whether Squid 2.7 can listen and identify mirroring data packet ?
> You can't just "feed" traffic in to Squid - it has to request it, otherwise it
> won't have a clue what to do with it.
>
>> if Squid 2.7 can identify , i hope to match video part and send 302 http
>> packet to end user via url_rewrite_access and redirect the user's
>> request to Cache
> Why not just tell the client to use Squid as a proxy?
>
> Then:
>
> - Squid will make the requests and know what to do with the response traffic it
> gets back
>
> - you don't need to send a 302 redirect to the client; it'll just get the
> cached content automatically
>
> - clients will get the benefits of caching for everything else, as well as the
> video
>
>
> In other words, why not just set up Squid "normally"?
>
>
> Antony.
>
Received on Thu Aug 28 2014 - 16:17:51 MDT