Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer-Excellent-Outcome
April 21, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments
Fantastic news! As a long time user of Blue Coat and Packeteer, I am pretty excited about this. The Packeteer traffic management technologies is a long way ahead of the Cisco queueing strategy, and the Blue Coat product set has plenty of features that hold Cisco at bay in the WAN Acceleration (previously known as Traffic Management….sigh…queue the whale song)
Let hope this completes quickly and cleanly.
Om Malik has a few comments as well:
(Via http://gigaom.com/2008/04/21/bluecoat-systems-buys-packeteer/.)
Thank goodness Nortel didn’t get an oar in.
http://gigaom.com/2008/04/20/packeteer-bid-bluecoat-nortel/.
Blue Coat ProxySG VIP and Cisco Switches Need Multicast Enabled
March 30, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 2 Comments
You have a pair of shiny new ProxySG boxen that you want to setup in active / standby for high availability. You configure it up and everything seems to work, and then it doesn’t, or other equipment on the same network experiences random problems.
What you are having is a Multicast problem with your Ethernet switches, most likely your Cisco switches, that has the problem. How to understand and solve the problem after the jump.
Delete the X-Bluecoat-via Header on Your ProxySG
February 27, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 1 Comment
If you have noticed that your Blue Coat ProxySG inserts a HTTP header in every transaction, you might want to delete this to reduce information leakage to public networks
Checking Connectivity on Your Blue Coat ProxySG
February 24, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
A very simple tool in your Proxy SG to check that you can access resources. It only works for HTTP but it provides a good check. I use this a lot in networks where ICMP has been disabled for security.
Performance of Blue Coat BCAAA Agent for Authentication
February 11, 2008 by Greg Ferro · Leave a Comment
A common question in the Blue Coat forums is about the server specification for the BCAAA and how many users can be supported. While I am not sure sure about the performance that Blue Coat recommends I can tell you my experiences.
Loading Policy Configuration in the Local File
February 10, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 4 Comments
A common question in the Blue Coat forums is “how do I load this config snippet into configuration. The question most often comes from people who are new to SGOS and have been using the Virtual Policy Manager. This quick note shows you how to load a config snippet that removes the X-Bluecoat-Via header
SOCKS Clients That Are Available for Your Blue Coat ProxySG - Update
February 6, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 3 Comments
A short list of SOCKS Clients that I have used or know of
Note that many programs have their own SOCKS client built in, many FTP clients such as Filezilla, WS FTP, Firefox and so on have built in support. You really need a client when you have an application that must use a proxy server, but the application does not have proxy support.
