Cisco Systems 6000 Features, These sections describe the CSM, Describes the features of the CSM

Overview

These sections describe the CSM:

•Features, page 3

•Front Panel Description, page 4

•Operation Mode, page 5

•Client-to-CSM-to-Server Traffic Flow, page 7

Features

Table 1 describes the features of the CSM.

Table 1	Content Switching Module Features
Feature		Description
Management		Standard Cisco IOS command-line interface
		Management interface integrated with host platform
Load-Balancing Algorithms		Weighted round-robin
		Weighted least connections
		Connection high/low watermarks
		Source address-based hashing algorithm
Flow and URL Identification		URL regular expression match
		Cookie regular expression match
		SSL1 session ID match
		Source IP address
		Standard ACLs
Security		Source IP address and URL expression match and AC entry match
Statistics		Packets through normal and special switching
		Connections created, established, destroyed, current, and timed out
		Failed server connections
		Layer 4 load-balanced decisions and rejected connections
		Layer 7 load-balanced decisions and rejected connections
		Layer 4 and Layer 7 rejected connections
		Checksum failures
		Redirect and FTP connections
		MAC frames

	Catalyst 6000 Family Content Switching Module Installation and Configuration Note
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