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Re: transparent proxy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Tyrone Fries)
Wed Jun 5 22:16:12 1996
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 14:58:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: Todd Tyrone Fries <todd@miango.com>
Reply-To: Todd Tyrone Fries <todd@miango.com>
To: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606051457.QAA27236@minnie.xos.nl>
> If I understand your question right, the answer is simple: just write
> an (application-level) server, that relays all incoming connections
> to another system. The basic plug-gw server of the TIS toolkit will
> probably do the job for you.
>
> But: what's so special about this? This can be done on any UNIX system,
> without special kernel support. Or do you mean something else?
Ok. I'll admit. I was a bit tired when I wrote that.
I was under the impression, the first time I read it, that the kernel itself
was able to do this. Then, when it wasn't, my train of thought led me to
ask if it was going to.
argh...sorry..
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Todd Fries .. todd@miango.com .. todd@emcee.com .. tfries@umr.edu
