[c-nsp] Content Services Switch Question

[Daniska, Tomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
> 
> Ok, I'm probably being an idiot here, but I have a question about an
> old CSS 11501 switch I'm trying to set up.  Does the CSS have to be
> the default route for any backend servers?  From what I'm seeing the
> CSS is using the IP address of the client to establish the TCP
> connection to the backend server, which means things break if the CSS
> isn't the default route since reply packets from the backend server
> don't get seen by the CSS.  I didn't see this explicitly spelled out
> in the Cisco docs.  Can anyone confirm my suspicions?
> 

No, the only thing you need to make sure of is that the traffic somehow
passes through the CSS.

E.g., in bridged mode, it's pretty opportunistic at looking at the
passing packets, so even an L2 path through the box is enough, you don't
even have to hit the CSS's MAC address to have the packet processed. 


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deejay