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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Cache-as-cache-can
The fourth solution is licensing WCCP http://www.cisco.com/warp/publlic/146/november98/17.html On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, steven hessing wrote: > There seem to be three solutions for transparent web-caching: > 1 a web-cache between two routers, all traffic is routed through it. > 2 a l4 switch between two routers, all traffic is routed through it. > The l4 switch redirects web-requests to a www-cache. > 3 a web-cache connected to a router which uses policy routing to > direct web-requests to it. > > 1 is extremely ugly and impossible at high traffic levels > 2 is an extra device in your network which needs to be managed > and is often difficult to implement in a WAN environment (our > core routers don't have (fast-)ethernet interfaces.) > 3 is the preferred solution but you need to run 11.3 or 12.0 for > it. These software versions support fast-switched policy routing. > Most ISPs currently rely on 11.1CC features and thus can not upgrade > to 11.3. The wait is thus for a stable release of 12.0. > > -- Steven > > In your mail from 17-11-1998 you write: > > In article <[email protected]>, > > Jesper Skriver <[email protected]> wrote; > > > > } Why use things like this, use a default route to a HSRP address ... > > > > That could be. But they (appliance venders) haven't shown > > it at this point, afaik. They simply shows a veiw of cache > > appliance and l4 switch sitting between 2 routers. Why? > > -- > > Katsuhiro Kondou >
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