WAAS WCCP help

Question

Hi guys,
Please have a look at my topology attached.Right now this is what I have configured on the core:
ip wccp 61
ip wccp 62
int vlan 151
ip wccp 61 redirect in
int vlan 173
ip wccp 62 redirect in
The same is configured on the branch office with the appropriate vlans.
Whatever I do, the "total packets redirected" count never seems to increase. I tried turning on ip wccp 62 redirect out on vlan 173, and ip wccp 61 redirect in on the same vlan, but then only the count for service 61 goes up.
Also, should I use access-lists to permit redirection only to branch offices that have a WAE? If I don't use a redirect-list, shouldn't all packets be redirected to the WAE, and then the WAE would decide whether to optimize or not based on if there's another WAE at the endpoint location?
Here's an output of "sh ip wccp 61 detail"
WCCP Cache-Engine information:
Web Cache ID: x.x.x.x
Protocol Version: 2.0
State: Usable
Redirection: L2
Packet Return: GRE
Packets Redirected: 0
Connect Time: 00:51:22
Assignment: MASK
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Since you are performing L2 rewrite under WCCP, you will not see the packets redirected increase. The redirection is handled by hardware instead of software. If redirection was done on a router, you would see packet increases.
I have had WAAS in place for about a year now and you can see below that I have only redirected 2 packets. I am redirecting on a 6509 as well.
mp1swcr01#show ip wccp 61
Global WCCP information:
Router information:
Router Identifier:
Protocol Version: 2.0
Service Identifier: 61
Number of Cache Engines: 2
Number of routers: 2
Total Packets Redirected: 2
Redirect access-list: WAAS_61
Total Packets Denied Redirect: 9179
Total Packets Unassigned: 186
Group access-list: -none-
Total Messages Denied to Group: 0
Total Authentication failures: 0