I have 6 Cisco WSA s680/s690 appliances managed by an m680 management box. My clients are using it as a transparent proxy (no config on the client end pointing to a specific proxy.) We use WCCP on a Cisco ASR to manage which proxy the traffic is sent to. Simple. Functional. until.. GOOGLE!
Google does not support transparent proxies.
The solution to the problem is to point the clients directly to a single one of those 6 proxy boxes. The POOF.. the problem is gone.
With 20,000 clients, it is impossible to send to ONE proxy.
Questions:
1. Has anyone had to deal with this issue?
2. If I point my clients to one of those 6 proxy boxes as a "master", is there a way to us the others as "slaves" to offset the load? This would mean the clients are using only one proxy (hopefully solving the google issue) but still sharing the load?
