From: Brett Miller (brett@shadowed.net)
Date: 08/09/07
The company I work for was testing these at one time. They did seem to
work ok. If I remember correctly we did have one or two issues
getting them to work correctly with some applications and protocols.
Though with limited knowledge of the product our issues could have been
caused by misconfiguration. In the end we end up getting higher capacity
MPLS links.
Brett
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:07:37PM +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> hey guys sorry it took so long to reply.
> this is a product a vendor suggested to us.
> basically they said putting these appliaces on both ends
> of the traffic will reduce the amount of overall traffic by reducing
> redundant traffic.
>
> anyway the products they were suggesting was
> http://www.riverbed.com/products/
> the explanation about the technology is located here
> http://www.riverbed.com/technology/index.php
>
> not sure if what they are claiming is possible...
>
> what do you guys think?
>
> -TIA
> Tomoki
>
>
>
> On 8/2/07, Richard Thomas <rich@dicksonlife.com> wrote:
> > Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> > > is there a proxy that could cache it?
> > >
> >
> > If you're talking about just caching straight packets, I don't really
> > see that you'd gain much or that it would realistically be feasible. Are
> > you sure it wasn't a cache for a specific protocol(s)?
> >
> > A web proxy works by noting the specific URL requested and making a
> > guess that the content has been requested before (and hasn't expired).
> > Even then it frequently gets it wrong. Trying to apply the same to just
> > raw tcp/ip would be madness (I tell ya).
> >
> > There is other stuff you could do like compress the streams or ACK
> > spoofing that might improve performance. Are you sure that's not what
> > you are thinking about?
> >
> > Rich
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