Selectively excluding/disabling ACE and FW modules in a 6500

[gamermv]

We have a 6500 running with both ACE and FW enabled and configured. I am just a programmer, not a network specialist, so please pardon my ignorance.

Should I be able to disable/exclude ACE/FW modules from the network path for certain hosts? I presume since it's all layer 3 I should be able to, but don't really know.

Any ideas/suggestions would be great.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Val Gamerman

 

[BuckWeet]

I assume you're using an ACE module to do load balancing? For the FW are you using a FWSM module?

In our environment we use policy based routing to direct traffic to the ACE device. This way only the traffic that we want LB'ed gets punted to the ACE instead of all traffic being processed by the ACE..


Could you give me an idea of how you're actually looking to deploy it? Where are the servers in relation to these devices? Are you using VIPs??

 

[gamermv]

Yes, we are using ACE and FWSM modules. We don't have a need for LB for these particular sets of servers (2 servers are sitting in one "cage", 4 other that these 2 need to talk to sit in another "cage"). There are ACE and FWSM modules loaded and configured in both cages so communication between these servers always goes through 2 ACE modules and w FWSM modules.

Thank you
Val