
Web Caching
264 Enterasys Xpedition User Reference Manual
The network shown above can be created with the following load-balance commands:
Web Caching
Web caching provides a way to store frequently accessed Web objects on a cache of local
servers. Each HTTP request is transparently redirected by the XP to a configured cache
server. When a user first accesses a Web object, that object is stored on a cache server. Each
subsequent request for the object uses this cached object. Web caching allows multiple
users to access Web objects stored on local servers with a much faster response time than
accessing the same objects over a WAN connection. This can also result in substantial cost
savings by reducing the WAN bandwidth usage.
Note: The XP itself does not act as cache for web objects. It redirects HTTP requests to
local servers on which the web objects are cached. One or more local servers are
needed to work as cache servers with the XP’s web caching function.
Configuring Web Caching
The following are the steps in configuring Web caching on the XP:
1. Create the cache group (a list of cache servers) to cache Web objects.
2. Specify the hosts whose HTTP requests will be redirected to the cache servers. This
step is optional; if you do not explicitly define these hosts, then all HTTP requests are
redirected.
3. Apply the caching policy to an outbound interface to redirect HTTP traffic on that
interface to the cache servers.
Creating the Cache Group
You can specify either a range of contiguous IP addresses or a list of up to four IP
addresses to define the servers when the cache group is created. If you specify multiple
servers, load balancing is based on the destination address of the request. If any cache
server fails, traffic is redirected to the other active servers.
Client IP Address Domain Name Virtual IP
Real Server
IP
TCP Port
20.20.10.1 - 20.20.10.254 www.enterasys.com 207.135.89.16 10.1.1.1 80
30.30.10.1 - 30.30.10.254 10.1.1.2 80
load-balance create group-name enterasys-sec virtual-ip 207.135.89.16 protocol tcp persistence-level ssl virtual-port 443
load-balance add host-to-group 10.1.1.1-10.1.1.2 group-name enterasys-sec port 443
load-balance set client-proxy-subnet enterasys-sec subnet 24
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