Re: WCCP glitch with 2.3S1

From: Glenn Chisholm <glenn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:11:23 -0700 (MST)

> Interesting little glitch I found while installing WCCP and Squid
> V2.3S1.
>
> The cache must point to the primary IP address on the router on the
> interface that the server is attached/routed thru. A secondary address
> will not work The symptoms are that the router sees the cache but the
> cache state never shows useable and the connection times out after 30
> seconds and resets.
>
> I suspect that the source address of the WCCP packet is the primary
> address and squid ignores it.
>

It is not a glitch, it is deliberate. I wrote it that way so that the
proxy would only accept packets from the host that you specified in the
squid.conf. If it does not do that it leaves you very open.

glenn
Received on Wed Jan 26 2000 - 10:21:18 MST

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:50:43 MST