RE: [squid-users] benefits of WCCP ?

For one, the performance of WCCP1 is absolutely terrible. I did some work
for a client who had this installed. I worked on
their content engine. Technically it worked, but the performance of WCCP1
was awful. Cisco will just tell you to upgrade.

If anything, just look at WCCP1 as a test protocol.

Now Cisco will tell you the new features are ....redundancy and security.
The only thing that is a marked improvement is the redirection.

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Nigel Clarke                 Forever Networks
Network Security Engineer    Consultant
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-----Original Message-----
From: Илья Шипицин [mailto:ilia@academy.urc.ac.ru]
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 11:52 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] benefits of WCCP ?
Dear Sirs,
would anybody explain me what is benefit of using WCCP ? WCCP1/WCCP2 ?
I have at least two different setup:
1) leased line is plugged directly into FreeBSD. squid is running on the
same host. I've found patch against FreeBSD kernel in order to support
WCCP.
2) leased line is plugged into some Cisco 25XX device, which is supposed
to support WCCP. FreeBSD boxen is placed behind that device.
I'm lost in www.cisco.com, the only thing which I discovered about WCCP
from there is that "blah-blah-blah HTTP content is for sure cacheble
blah-blah-blah caching is good thing to do blah-blah-blah"
What should I expect from WCCP in the first case ? in the second case ?
The only thing I figured out for now is that squid takes 20Mb less memory
when configured/built without WCCP support :)
Regards, (Наилучшие пожелания)
Ilia Chipitsine (Илья Шипицин)