On Wed, Sep 05, 2007, Horacio Herrera Gonzalez wrote: > Thanks to everyone who supports the great Squid! The Wiki and this > mail-list have been very useful to me, but this time I'm stuck and I > can't find any previous example to take off from there, so I was > hoping for you guys feeling generous today and give me a clue or > two... :) Thanks! > I want to do transparent redirection using a 3550 cisco switch, but it > doesn't redirect any packet at all. It should do. I had it working when I had a loaner Cisco 3550.. > wccp2_forwarding_method 2 > wccp2_return_method 2 > wccp2_assignment_method 2 > > And the cache.log file shows this: > > fatal error - A WCCP router has specified a different assignment > method 1, expected 2 > > Changing the Assignment method to 1 didn't had any effect, so I > changed the Return method too, like this: > > wccp2_forwarding_method 2 > wccp2_return_method 1 > wccp2_assignment_method 1 It needs to be a little friendlier, I agree. The Cisco 3550: * does hash assignment (like a software router); * does L2 forwarding (like a switch) * and I think does GRE redirect (which squid doesn't do atm.) > After that, everything looked like if it were going to work: > > - No related errors inside "cache.log". > > - The switch reported the following: > > WCCP Client ID: 10.10.2.2 > Protocol Version: 2.0 > State: Usable > Redirection: L2 > Packet Return: GRE > Assignment: HASH > Initial Hash Info: 00000000000000000000000000000000 > 00000000000000000000000000000000 > Assigned Hash Info: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF > FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF > Hash Allotment: 256 (100.00%) > Packets s/w Redirected: 0 > Connect Time: 00:08:11 > Bypassed Packets > Process: 0 > CEF: 0 > > - And even the GRE tunnel seems to be up: > > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > udp 0 0 10.10.2.2:2048 10.10.2.1:2048 ESTABLISHED Yup. > P.D. Other relevant configuration: > > + Switch related: > > ip wccp web-cache > > interface Vlan6 > description Clients > ip wccp web-cache redirect in Does vlan6 have an IP address configured? WCCPv2 on a 3550 only works if the clients are routed through it. It wont work if its being a switch. Clients need to have vlan6 set as a default gateway. Adrian