Re: WCCP ?

A few items of note:

o) Apparently, there was some kind of "cache" bakeoff. For reasons
Netapp will not divulge, they have chosen not to release their performance
numbers. Me thinks they got their butt kicked.

o) I received a call from Netapp the other day about wanting to talk to
me about a new lower-end cache appliance, supposedly coming in around 17k.

  still not that great given the need for 2 of 'em, and an alteon in front
of it...

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, fooler fools wrote:

> I agree with you Peter! :-> Cheers. :->
>
> fooler.
>
> P.S. try the foundry layer 4 switch :->
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C. Norton <spacey@inch.com>
> To: fooler fools <fooler@skyinet.net>
> Cc: Markus Storm <Markus.Storm@mediaWays.net>; squid-users@ircache.net
> <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:30 AM
> Subject: Re: WCCP ?
>
>
> >Considering that the low-end netcache is about $30-40k I know I can build
> >a more redundant and reliable squid cache farm with a bigip or alteon
> >switch in front of 10 bsd or linux boxen. I think at that point I could
> >also exceed it's performance. With the cost of the higher-end netcache I
> >could put them in 2 seperate locations and use something like distributed
> >director or 3dns and have network redundancy as well, for the same cost as
> >a single netcache.
> >
> >Netapp charges a lot for a good product - and I love their filers.
> >But for a web cache they charge way too much. Squid can be built on sooo
> >nicely. But if you're dealing with a company that doesn't have technical
> >resources then the netapp solutions are probably worth getting.
> >
> >-Peter
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:04:06AM +0800, fooler fools wrote:
> >> try the netappliance cache engine.. one of the designers is a former
> >> designer of harvest squid cache. they claimed that its nth times faster
> than
> >> the squid. :->
> >>
> >> fooler.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Markus Storm <Markus.Storm@mediaWays.net>
> >> To: squid-users@ircache.net <squid-users@ircache.net>
> >> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 09:25 PM
> >> Subject: WCCP ?
> >>
> >>
> >> >Hi folks,
> >> >
> >> >does anyone know about the status of Cisco's WCCP (Web Caching Control
> >> >Protocol) ?
> >> >Inktomi recently offered us a cache supporting WCCP.
> >> >Did they somehow buy the specs or did Cisco open them ?
> >> >Maybe even any ongoing squid development work out there ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Thanks,
> >> >Markus
> >
> >--
> >Peter C. Norton Time comes into it. / Say it. Say it.
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> >http://spacey.static.inch.com | not of atoms.
> > |
> > Muriel Rukeyser "The Speed of
> Darkness"
> >
>
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 01:07:01 MDT