[squid-users] RE:Plz urgent help: Fedora & Wccp

From: Omnia Ibrahim <omnia@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:06:46 +0200

Hi Henrik,
 
thanx alot for your reply it was realy helpfull
when i use the commands u have gived me
 
> modprobe ip_gre
> ip tunnel add wccp mode gre remote ip.of.your.router dev ethX
> ip link set wccp up
 
my router realy see the squid box and it gives thats is usable but the browsing is not realy

working as squid didnt recieve requests and my access.log is emty though the squid as proxy is

working fine and i found packets redirected on the router when i use sh ip wccp web-cache detail.
am i missing something?

thanx
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Omnia Ibrahem" <omnia@egyptnetwork.com>
Cc: "Squid Users" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Fedora & wccp

> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Omnia Ibrahem wrote:
>
>> Thanx for reply henrik
>>
>> wccp version 1 or 2 no problem
>> but u said that i have to setup up GRE tunnel on the proxy server but i still
>> dont know how to do that on fedora.
>>
>> i already configured my cisco router to recieve gre
>
> This is not needed and should not be done.
>
>> as it was working with
>> other server using redhat 9 and i configugred wccp by compiling its module
>> and using commands insmod ip_wccp and insmod ip_gre ,
>
> You can only load one of ip_wccp or ip_gre at the time.
>
>> but i know its different in fedora so i couldnt deal with it
>
> No, it isn't.
>
> The only difference is that for Linux-2.6.9 or later ip_gre supports WCCP,
> provided you set up the proper GRE tunnel to accept the WCCP packets sent
> to you by the router.
>
> GRE tunnels are created by the "ip tunnel" command.
>
> Try the following:
>
> modprobe ip_gre
> ip tunnel add wccp mode gre remote ip.of.your.router dev ethX
> ip link set wccp up
>
> where ip.of.your.router is the IP of your router and ethX is the interface
> where the WCCP packets from the router will be seen.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Sat Apr 16 2005 - 10:09:34 MDT

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