[18128] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Milhollan)
Sat Jun 27 15:49:11 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <19980627102800.50846@mcs.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:34:46 -0700
From: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>
Karl Denninger writes:
>(performance for the FIRST fetch through a proxy
>is SLOWER - it HAS TO BE, since the proxy must first get the data before it
>can pass it on).
It doesn't have to -- think cut-thru switching. I've no idea if
any/enough of the proxies do this.
