HELP with WCCP and Riverbed on 6509 and 4500X

[carl_townshend]

Hi All

We are having a real pain getting riverbed to work in our environment.

The setup is as follows

HQ

6509 running VSS, Version 12.2(33)SXI4a

Servers based here on vlan 691

wan connected to vlan 100

we have a redirect 61 in on the wan vlan

and a redirect 62 in on the server vlan

at the other site

We have a 4500X switch running VSS, Version 03.06.05.E 

redirect from client vlan 200 in

and redirect 62 in from the wan vlan 300

Riverbed at each end of the link running wccp.

For some reason as soon as we put the traffic redirect commands on both switches on each site, the users can no longer access the application, it is if the traffic is being black holed.

The Riverbeds do see the connections but the users cannot access.

Any ideas why this is not working?

cheers

[GRANT3779]

Hi Carl,

Been a while since I have touched riverbeds.

Do you have other traffic going through these Steelheads or is this the first time putting traffic through them?

Do you have a high level diagram of the cabled connections from the Riverbed to switch and the cisco side config. Are you seeing the application traffic getting across the WAN to the application in the connections?

[carl_townshend]

Hi there

no other traffic going through other than that redirected via the wccp access lists from both sides.

we just have 1 physical inpath connection on both steelheads with wccp redirecting to this and 1 management connection to each.

I was seeing some connections on the riverbeds but they cannot access the application

[GRANT3779]

Does the app work with the optimization service stopped?

[carl_townshend]

Hi

If I stop the service, it then starts working again

But it looks like this effectively switches off the WCCP

any ideas ?

[GRANT3779]

Out of interest what is the application that doesn't work when going through the Riverbeds?

[carl_townshend]

Hi

its Siemens nx teamcentre used for CAD

[GRANT3779]

What do you have setup regarding inpath rules?
Were these Steelheads put in specifically for this app?
Might be worth running pcap direct from the steelheads at each end and have a look in Wireshark, or the logs within.