waas upgrade process - and ftp optimization

[pdinapoli]

Hi folks.

this is hopefully an easy question for someone.

I have roughly 100 remote WAE's of various sizes scattered around the country.

I have an FTP server in my datacenter that I use to push software upgrades to my WAE's as they come online.

Is this TCP connection from WAE to FTP server optimizable?  Seems like as long as we have a policy in place to do TFO/DRE/LZ on FTP traffic - then the upgrade would indeed be optimizable...but the odd part is that it's traffic to/from the WAE itself.

If you wireshark this connection - the WAE is the FTP client and my server in the datacenter is the FTP server.

In my case - these are all external appliances connected to the lan (non nme-wae) which means the packet would flow to the router - WCCP would redirect to the WAE, WAE sends back to router inside GRE.

Can a Waas appliance Waasify it's own traffic?

Thanks,
Paul

[Michael Korenbaum]

Paul,

Yes connections originated from the remote WAE to your FTP server can be optimized.  This assumes your policy engine is configured to allow this (the default policies do) and the redirection of the WAE IP to FTP server IP and reverse is permitted at the DC location (e.g. if you have a wccp redirect ACL make sure the remote WAE IPs are permitted redirection).

Regards,

Mike Korenbaum

Cisco WAAS PDI Help Desk

http://www.cisco.com/go/pdihelpdesk

[pdinapoli]

Thank you Mike.