Re: [squid-users] IPFilter + FreeBSD + WCCP

From: Ahmad Masood Shah <masood@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:47:13 +0500

Dear Henrik,

Sorry not Squid related question.
How can we patch GRE to support WCCP on FreeBSD as well as Linux.
Are is there any web link etcc which is useful to do this.

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Best Regs,
Masood Ahmad Shah
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: <francisv@dagupan.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] IPFilter + FreeBSD + WCCP
> On Tuesday 17 June 2003 03.22, francisv@dagupan.com wrote:
> > No, it's not using the GRE patches. I'm using the instructions for
> > 4.8-RELEASE/STABLE:
> >
> > FreeBSD-4.8 and later
> >
> > The operating system now comes standard with some GRE support. You
> > need to make a kernel with the GRE code enabled:
> 
> WCCP is not standard GRE. WCCP uses a special GRE protocol and is why 
> GRE implementations needs to be patched to support WCCP.
> 
> If the GRE module is not patched to support the WCCP flavor of GRE 
> then it will silently drop any WCCP pakets as it does not look like 
> valid IP traffic to the GRE module.
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
> 
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Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 04:47:34 MDT

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