WCCP on Mikrotik

RouterOS General
1

Hi,

I apologize before hand if I’m asking the mundane… But, can someone explain why it is not possible?

If it is possible, would it be too difficult to implement? Anyone else think this could help them in their usage scenario?

Thx.

2

I’m sorry - i’m not familiar with terminology

can you explain what is WCCP? and what functionality you need exactly

3

It’s a Web Cache Communication Protocol, developed by Cisco, here is a link for more details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Cache_Communication_Protocol

Regards.

Faton

4

No, this protocol is not supported.

But some of functionality should be possible with features MT has.

So again - what functionality do you require (in details and do not use paste from Cisco documentation)

5

No it is not supported by RouterOS, but I agree with macgaiver it depends what you want to achieve. In Cisco, WCCP is used with external Cache servers (Squid or Cisco Cache Engine), with RouterOS you can do things regarding Caching, but depending on scenario.

Regards.

Faton

6

Hi,

WCCP is very nice in that if a proxy becomes unavailable web-traffic is not affected. Also, it allows for multiple proxies to share the load etc - all features I’d use immediately if RouterOS supported it…

In the mean time you can do the following:

  1. Use IP–>Web-Proxy and set your squid/caching server as parent server.

  2. Redirect all packets outbound destined for port 80 via your proxy (excluding packets from the proxy of course).

You can also have a script that checks if the cache becomes unavailable and disables the rule.

Regardt

7

WCCP is not only used for web caching, but also for Wide Area Network optimization such as Riverbed Steelhead appliances (http://www.riverbed.com). WCCP allows for an out-of-path configuration of WAN optimization appliances. Specific WAN optimization is something that RouterOS does NOT do. Check it out.

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