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From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
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Subject: RE: GRE Support in 4.X ???
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:04:17 -0600
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> > I believe you can also configure policy based routing on the Cisco to
ship
> > the traffic to your caching server - without GRE encapsulation - and
> > achieve the same results.
>
> You can achieve *almost* the same results. What the policy based routing
> doesn't give you is detection of a dead cache server. I believe WCCP has
> some support for this (keepalives/polling).

Thanks but, also with policy routing the squid will work as a transparent
proxy, and in that way I cant have load balancing betwen several Cache
Engines, like the one that WCCP provides.

Greetings...
Ales





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