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Re: CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY sample programs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Sun Jul 14 01:50:48 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: david@sealabs.com (David Bonn)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 15:21:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: smurf@smurf.noris.de, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199607122015.NAA03172@torment.sealabs.com> from "David Bonn" at Jul 12, 96 01:15:17 pm
Hi,
David Bonn wrote:
>
>The trick is to use getsockname() on the proxied client. This returns
>the address that the client thinks it is connecting to.
>
Ah. I'll try that.
>My current thinking is that transparent proxies can be used quite
>efficiently to manage ip masquerading connections. Using a
>transparent proxy for the ftp control connection won't have a
>noticable performance impact, but makes for cleaner, more robust code
>when it comes to building ip masquerading entries for the data
>connection.
>
Good idea. In fact, I'd like a sample program please.
(Somebody must already have written one, in order to test the kernel co=
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