Re: [squid-users] Tproxy -Just How useful is it?

On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 14:59 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
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> > > You will still have the same TCP/IP protocol issues if not more.
> > > The only problem it might solve is access those sites not happy when a
> > > user changes IP when going from http to https.
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> > That's the only good thing about tproxy support? That seems a bit
> > little.(to me anyway)
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> It allows you to transparently intercept and cache web traffic
> from clients who have real IP addresses. Its very useful for ISPs
> who wish to deploy Squid (or any other kind of interception caching)
> but don't want to break the "End to end" model a lot of applications
> today expect.
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> I've got plans to put an example or two of it in use up on the Squid
> wiki after I finish this set of exams. I'll be deploying it for an
> ISP in precisely this manner.
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> Its not so useful for office setups behind a NAT as the clients have
> no existing end-to-end public addressing in place.

Now, this is more useful and precisely the answer i was seeking..

Thanks.

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Received on Sat Nov 11 2006 - 00:02:23 MST