Cisco IOS Load Balancing for Blue Coat SGOS

Some time ago I used IOS SLB fea­ture on a C6500 to load bal­ance a pair of Blue Coat ProxySG. Here the con­fug­ur­a­tion and some notes.

Why Can’t I Ping My ACE Module ? Diatribe on Service-​​Policy.

Had a prob­lem with an ACE mod­ule today. It took two of us a while to real­ise what was wrong. And mus­ings on service-​​policy syntax.

Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) — Introduction and Comparison With F5

My new interest of the moment is the Cisco Application Control Engine or ACE mod­ule. I have just received a pair of them and plan­ning on start­ing the con­fig­ur­a­tion in the next couple of days. So per­haps some dis­cus­sion on the ACE is in order, and why I am con­sid­er­ing using both F5 LTM AND the Cisco ACE in this network.