Re: OT: Is WAAS that bad?

Hi Alexei,

Did the bug cause problem on other app? I prefer out of path deployment to
avoid software bug affecting other traffic, esp control traffic like OSPF or
BGP. and with out of path, isolation can be achieved immediately by changing
or removing WCCP/PBR.

BTW, any similar bad exp with Riverbed Steelhead?

Regards,
Alexander Lim

On 10 Sep, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Types of problems our customer ran into was primarily corrupted writes
to CIFS network drives. Also because of some Windows patches being rolled out
on a corporate scale combined with some internal WAAS bugs the customer had
troubles accessing those network drives and some applications. So they ended
up upgrading the bandwidth where it was possible and disabling WAAS.
>
> We still run it on our South Pacific links (mostly satellite ones) and it is
somehow useful. And we are still on version 4.2.3b which is kind of hard to
upgrade overnight across the large installation base and a strict change
control, so it is dragging along slowly.
>
> In our case it is a combination of customer-specific environment and WAAS
version deployed which causes some grief. I look forward to upgrade to version
5 to see the difference.
>
> A.
>
> On 9/3/2012 9:04 AM, Alexander Lim wrote:
>> Hi Alexei,
>>
>> Based on your exp, does SteelHead have problem with WCCP? And is its
transparent mode working as good as tunnel mode?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexander Lim
>>
>> On 1 Sep, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Comparing to Riverbed WAAS is absolutely behind... first hand experience
from rolling out and supporting both on large scale.
>>>
>>> A>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/1/2012 3:29 PM, Alexander Lim wrote:
>>>> Hi Experts,
>>>>
>>>> While looking for some comparison between Cisco WAAS and Riverbed
SteelHead, I found this article
http://m.networkworld.com/community/blog/cisco-finally-shows-waas-app-nav-cis
co-live-0. Is it telling the truth? Is Cisco WAAS really that bad? What do you
guys use in your network?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sharing.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Alex
>>>>
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