Re: Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9 (fwd)

Recently, John Todd talked about "Re: Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9 (fwd)", and said
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> The Alteon products are not quite what the doctor ordered, or at least,
> they're not what this doctor can afford. The initial verbal quote was about
> $9k for the hardware, and then an additional $3k for the software. Gaaa!

Sorry, I thought when you said "Cisco" you were looking for something
along the lines of their Web Cache Engine thingie for $45,000; currently,
that's the only thing I know of in a Cisco that will do what you were
looking today, and $12K makes the Alteon box darned cheap compared to
the Cisco box. The Alteon box is also the _only_ box that I know
of that is an "invisible" something that will do web redirection;
all others are actual IP "hops" that show up in traceroutes, and
are attackable as actual IP addresses.

I think the only thing you're going to find that's cheaper than
the Alteon box is a Linux/BSD box with multiple ethernet cards. :-(

Best of luck!

Matt
 
> The hardware has two gigabit ethernet ports (overkill for this application)
> and then (?) 8 10/100 ports. Once again, all I really need is a 4-port 10bT
> swrouter that can be had for $3k. This can be easily done with a Linux or
> BSD-based box, but I don't WANT such a cumbersome animal in the path of the
> important data. I want something that is "invisible" from the higher layers
> of the (broken) OSI model.
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> <sigh> Back to policy routing... Good news: policy routing is
> fast-switched in 11.3 of the "standard issues" releases on 2xxx/4xxx
> routers.
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> JT
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> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Matthew Petach wrote:
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> > Recently, George M. Ellenburg talked about "Cisco 2501 & Squid 1.1.9", and
> > said
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it possible to set up some sort of NAT in a Cisco 2501 Router to
> > > have the router blindly redirect all packets destined for port 80 to
> > > our proxy server on port 3128 so our users don't have to specify a
> > > proxy server address in their browsers?
> >
> > Alteon has added such a feature into their AceSwitch 180 line
> > of fast ethernet switches; it has the advantage of doing the
> > redirection at layer 2, so there's no IP "hop" associated with
> > the redirection, unlike with a router-based solution. It's
> > pretty cool. It'll even do load-balancing among several
> > squid caches with the redirection!
> >
> > Definitely worth checking out!
> >
> > Matt
> >
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