Determining the configuration requirements

Decisions to be made

After you have planned for the basic configuration of your NetCache appliance, you should decide how you want to optimize your NetCache appliance to function as a Web cache on your network.

While you read this chapter, you will determine whether you want to do the following:

Specify types of content to be proxied and cached
Configure the appliance to drop or maintain specified client connections
Specify how the appliance will respond to canceled requests and reload requests
Specify object refresh rates
Control user access to HTTP services
Configure the appliance to not provide the client IP address to the Web server
Suppress error messages that refer to the presence of a proxy-cache server to clients
Configure the appliance to forward, tunnel, or redirect specified types of traffic
Configure the appliance to support FTP