[c-nsp] routing based on source port

[Shakeel Ahmad]

WCCP will only work with web traffic... i see no other solution i know else
than PBR ...

On 8/19/06, Vikas Sharma <vikassharmas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Oliver,
>
> I am working with CDMA operator. Since RF (medium) is very unstable, as
> you
> may get time to time week or strong RF, to optimize the Data flow over RF,
> we have implemented some optimization products. I hope now "Data flow over
> RF" is clear.
>
> We have PDSN as an access server and AAA we used to authenticate the user.
> After authentication user is given a profile and and IP from the
> corresponding IP pool in PDSN is allocated to the user. Here due to some
> restriction I can not create a seperate user otherwise i can easily do
> reverse routing for that IP pool. I hope now you must have understood the
> scenario.
>
> It will be good if you /anyone can help me on WCCP.
>
> Regards
> Vikas Sharma
>
> On 8/19/06, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Vikas,
> >
> > I must say I don't understand anything you said ;-) maybe others will,
> but
> > I don't know what you mean by "data flow over RF" and user
> names/profiles
> > and why this doesn't work with PBR..
> > Source based routing is "policy based routing", you can use an ACL and
> > match something (for example the source port(s)), and then forward the
> > packets accordingly..
> >
> >     oli
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* Vikas Sharma [mailto:vikassharmas at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Friday, August 18, 2006 7:56 PM
> > *To:* Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer); cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > *Subject:* Re: [c-nsp] routing based on source port
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> > We are using some servers to optimize the data flow over RF. For the
> > simplicity purpose, we don't want to create a separate user name and
> > password for this profile. If I create a different username and profile
> I
> > can certainly define reverse routes but this will be inconvenience for
> end
> > user. Thus to integrate the Internet access with the data optimization
> we
> > are using the same username and password and I can not do PBR.
> > I have slightest idea of WCCP. We can use it for destination port based
> > routing..just want to understand how we can achieve source port based
> > routing?
> >
> > Regards
> > Vikas Sharma
> >
> >
> > On 8/18/06, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Vikas Sharma <> wrote on Friday, August 18, 2006 4:22 PM:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Can we do the routing based on source port like we can do by using
> > > > destination port in Cisco using WCCP? I am not sure weather I am
> > > > using the right technology (WCCP), but my requirement is to route
> the
> > > > traffic based on source port.
> > > > I have one default route and due to certain reason I can not do PBR.
> > > > The only option left is to route based on source port as if I route
> > > > based on destination port all traffic will go in that direction
> which
> > > > is not my objective. I want selected traffic to be routed. Any help
> > > > is appreciated.
> > >
> > > I can only think about PBR for this, why can't you use it. What is
> your
> > > application/requirement to do this?
> > >
> > >        oli
> > >
> >
> >
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