[Gllug] how to check for a transparent proxy

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 7:28 am, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> Now, what has been suggested is an extra rewrite on the way out of the
> gateway box, so that the ip packets sent from the proxy application on
> the gateway box to the remote webserver have the source header rewritten
> to contain the ip address of the original client machine.  

I'm no expert but...

Wouldn't that more-or-less require all the client boxes to have a static, real 
IP address (not just a Class A/B/C address)? That would be impractical for a 
large (eg. University) LAN. I suppose IP6 128 bit IP addresses are designed 
to solve this problem?

Luv Jon

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