How do I configure WCCP?

Understanding the configuration of WCCP

1. Step1: Configure WCCP Version 2.
2. Step2: Specify the IP Address of WSA in an ACL.
3. Step3: Specify which traffic needs to be redirected to WSA using an ACL.
4. Step4: Configure WCCP Service IP and combine all the parameters.
5. Step5: Apply WCCP on the interface of the Router.

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 IP WCCP redirect?

Exclude Content Gateway outbound traffic on the interface from all redirection rules on the router: ip wccp redirect exclude in. When ARM bypass occurs, or IP spoofing is enabled, the proxy sends traffic to the Internet with the original source IP address.

What is WCCP in networking?

WCCP. A Cisco-developed content-routing protocol that provides a mechanism to redirect traffic flows in real-time. It has built-in load balancing, scaling, fault tolerance, and service-assurance (failsafe) mechanisms.

What is WCCP in FortiGate?

WCCP stands for “Web Cache Coordinator Protocol”. The idea is to transparently redirect user traffic to a cache (that is: no explicit web proxy configured on client web browser). Client traffic going through the FortiGate is intercepted and redirected to a web proxy.

Is WCCP Cisco proprietary?

Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP) is a Cisco proprietary content-routing protocol that provides a mechanism to redirect traffic flows in real-time. It has built-in load balancing, scaling, fault tolerance, and service-assurance (failsafe) mechanisms.

What is a WCCP client?

A WCCP client (an appliance) uses UDP port 2048 to register itself with the router and to negotiate which traffic should be sent to it, and also which WCCP features should be used for this traffic. The appliance operates on this traffic and forwards the resulting traffic to the original endpoint.

Does FortiGate support WCCP?

To use a FortiGate unit as a WCCP client, the FortiGate unit must be set to be a WCCP client (or cache engine). You must also configure an interface on the client for WCCP communication. The client sends and receives encapsulated GRE traffic to and from the WCCP server using this interface.

What is WCCP FortiGate?

What is Wccp in FortiGate?