Installing a Cisco NM-Content Engine in Production Network

We have a 3745 with a Cisco CE 40 gig in the NM slot. It has never been configured.

Question 1...
This router is sitting on the edge between the ISP (on Fast0/1) and a PIX (on Fast0/0). The NM-CE has a fast ethernet port -- where does this plug in? To the inside of the LAN? We have a traffic shaping device on the inside before the PIX, should we plug it in "before" the device so the NM-CE can run at it's full potential? I guess I just can't figure out what the point of the fast ethernet interface on it is.

Question 2...
How hard is this to configure? Can someone steer me in the right direction? Yes, I've been googling and not finding the kind of concise info i need.

Thanks,
HT

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cisco_trooper

Content Engine Network Modules [Cisco Network Modules] - Cisco Systems

hypnotoad

Well, I messed with this thing for a while now. I basically just want it to be a transparent http cache for the internal LAN.

So i'm assuming that fast0/0 on the contentengine module will go back in to the LAN....then...(FastEthernet0/1 on the router is my outside)

ip wccp web-cache
interface FastEthernet0/1
ip address blah.blah
ip wccp web-cache redirect out
ip wccp web-cache redirect in
!
interface Content-Engine1/0
ip address 10.10.0.199 255.255.252.0
no ip redirects
no ip unreachables
ip virtual-reassembly
ip route-cache flow
service-module external ip address 66.172.154.68 255.255.255.224 ???
service-module ip default-gateway 66.172.154.65 ???
no cdp enable
hold-queue 60 out
!

In the Content-Engine1/0 config, the previous admin has the two ??? lines. I don't get why they are in there.

Is this good so far? I dont see any requests being sent to the CE.

ContentEngine#show statistics http requests
all values are zeros.

tiersten

hypnotoad wrote: »

In the Content-Engine1/0 config, the previous admin has the two ??? lines. I don't get why they are in there.

It is configuring the IP address on the content engine's external network interface.

Linky.

tiersten

CE Network Module Operating Topologies

The previous admin seems to have configured it to use the first method.