[18185] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Jun 29 13:23:02 1998
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:11:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g390mhr1tt.fsf@bb.rc.vix.com>
On 28 Jun 1998, Paul Vixie wrote:
> And in these senses (cut through with segment reblocking; reasonable/modern
> TCP handling; more use of persistent HTTP), someone with tcpdump actually
> would be able to tell that my particular transparent caching box was in use.
> I'll leave the challenge to Karl open, though, since I meant specifically
> "be ableto tell from the client or server end" not "be able to tell using
> tcpdump on a LAN wire upstream of the caching box".
> --
And more and more per IP subscription services will need pages like:
http://www.iop.org/cgi-bin/checkup for their customers to debug all these
transparent proxies that may or may not be in the path.
> Paul Vixie
> La Honda, CA "Many NANOG members have been around
> <paul@vix.com> longer than most." --Jim Fleming
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>
Hank Nussbacher