How does Cisco WCCP work?
WCCP is used between a Cisco router and a proxy server to communicate. The proxy server will tell the router that it is “alive” and ready to serve webpages. It’s also used as a “hello” message so the router knows when the proxy is down. The router is called the WCCP server and the proxy is called the WCCP client.
What is Vrrp in networking?
The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a computer networking protocol that provides for automatic assignment of available Internet Protocol (IP) routers to participating hosts. This increases the availability and reliability of routing paths via automatic default gateway selections on an IP subnetwork.
How configure WAN optimization in FortiGate?
Enabling WAN optimization and configuring the explicit web proxy for the wireless interface
- Go to System > Feature Visibility. Ensure that Explicit Proxy is enabled.
- Go to Network > Interfaces, edit the wireless interface and select Enable Explicit Web Proxy.
- Go to Network > Explicit Proxy. Enable Explicit Web Proxy.
What is WCCP configure?
This section provides information about configuring WCCP. The Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) is a Cisco-developed content-routing technology that intercepts IP packets and redirects those packets to a destination other than that specified in the IP packet.
What is WCCP (web cache communication protocol)?
The Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) is a Cisco-developed content-routing technology that intercepts IP packets and redirects those packets to a destination other than that specified in the IP packet. Typically the packets are redirected from their destination web server on the Internet to a content engine that is local to the client.
How do I enable or disable WCCP on a router?
To configure an interface on a router to enable or disable the reception of IP multicast packets for the Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) feature, use the ip wccp group-listen interface configuration command. To remove control of the reception of IP multicast packets for the WCCP feature, use the no form of this command.
How to enable IP WCCP group-listen on Cisco 7600 series routers?
To ensure correct operation of the ip wccp group-listen command on Cisco 7600 series routers, you must enter the ip pim command in addition to the ip wccp group-listen command. ip wccp [vrf vrf-name] {web-cache | service-number} group-listen