Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:32:53 +0300 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router and WCCP Message-ID: <20071119153252.GF57722@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <4741A773.8010101@ibctech.ca> References: <473DD804.1020502@ibctech.ca> <20071118151716.GA57722@amilo.cenkes.org> <4741968A.3010009@ibctech.ca> <20071119145205.GE57722@amilo.cenkes.org> <4741A773.8010101@ibctech.ca>
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: > > > ipfw forwarding is a very easy way to redirect traffic without > > changing it. PF has similar functionality. It all depends on what > > the appliance supports. If wccp is the only way it can eat > > packets, try playing with gre(4). But maybe it'll consume just > > plain packets with "wrong" IP destinations arriving on its MAC > > address, just the way squid on FreeBSD does. > > > > BTW, if the appliance supports ICAP, you'll be much better off > > running squid on a FreeBSD box and filtering content through > > ICAP. > > The appliance does indeed have ICAP capabilities, but I have never > dabbled with it before. > > I am familiar with IPFW, but I'd like to know all options in order to > choose the best one. > > I would very much prefer to do this in a way without having to have > Squid running on the box, but will if I have to. If filtering is all you want, you don't have to set up squid as a caching proxy. I.e. it won't need much RAM and disk space. I have yet to set up ICAP (with c-icap) in our workshop, but from discussions on squid mailing lists it seems ICAP is in a pretty usable state, both in squid 2.x and 3.x.
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