[Gllug] how to check for a transparent proxy

[Bernard Peek]

In message <20021203100528.GC18219 at phaistos.bruce>, Bruce Richardson 
<itsbruce at uklinux.net> writes

>I know how transparent proxies work.  We were discussing the options for
>ip packet rewriting, if you look back.  Conventionally a transparent
>proxy makes itself invisible only to the client and the ip redirection
>happens on the client->proxy side.  What has been suggested is a further
>ip packet rewrite on the proxy->webserver side so that the webserver
>sees (and responds to) the client ip address rather than the proxy one.

I would have though that this was counter-productive. The intention is 
to get all of the web-servers to send their traffic to the proxy-server 
so that it could be cached. Giving a different machine's IP address 
would direct traffic away from the proxy.

Or am I missing something?



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