[c-nsp] Forwarding http traffic to web filtering service

[Brian]

How does the WCCP redirect work on the ASA?  I want to forward all http
traffic to a specific IP address on the Internet and also forward that
traffic to port 3128.  I don't see a command to point to an IP address under
wccp.

On 6/20/07, Brian <bms314 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the replies.  I will try to enable WCCP on our ASA later
> today.  Does anyone have a working config for this in production?
>
> On 6/20/07, Bill Nash <billn at billn.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If your device doesn't support WCCP, you can emulate this with a NAT
> > directive in your ASA. I don't know the specific syntax offhand (I've no
> > PIX's in my network, but the iptables equivalant is:
> > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to
> > 192.168.100.1:3128
> >
> > I don't think your route-map option will work, incidentally, unless
> > you're
> > changing the next-hop to the inside interface of a NAT layer that
> > implements what I describe above.
> >
> > - billn
> >
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007, Brian wrote:
> > > > We're trying to forward all http traffic to a web filtering service
> > on the
> > > > Internet.  They require the http traffic forwarded to a name and
> > then
> > > > forwarded to port 3128.  I was thinking of creating a route-map and
> > setting
> > > > the next-hop to be the IP address.  How can I also forward this
> > traffic to a
> > > > specific port from my router (or my ASA) so it acts somewhat like a
> > proxy?
> > > > Also, is there a way to point to the name rather than an IP address?
> > >
> > > Look at WCCPv2 support. Almost all cisco routers these days support it
> > > in some form or other. (My 827 here at home, for example, doesn't. :)
> > > I believe later ASA (7.x?) supports WCCPv2.
> > >
> > > Many web proxies have WCCP/WCCPv2 support. I can help you with Squid,
> > if
> > > thats what it is on port 3128, or you can talk to your vendor.
> > >
> > > With WCCPv2, the proxy actually asks the router (nicely!) to join the
> > > service group; so you don't have to hard-code in an IP in the router
> > > (unless you specifically lock it down with an ACL) and you can use
> > > MD5 passwords to further limit joining the service group. You can
> > > (assuming the proxy software supports it) run >1 proxy talking to >1
> > > router. This gives you failover and load balancing/distribution.
> > > (Which is what I guess you want to point it at a name for rather
> > > than an IP address.)
> > >
> > > All in all, its a much better alternative to route-map next-hop
> > > forwarding. Although there's apparently a method to do a conditional
> > > next-hop depending on a rtr object (ICMP ping, for example) but the
> > > one setup I wanted to use it for (on the 3560 switch) turned out to
> > > be documented, but then documented as a documentation mistake and
> > > not implemented.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrian
> > >
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