[H-GEN] Transparent proxying at meetings

[Anthony Towns]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robert Brockway wrote:

> At meetings, we often have problems with ftp clients (everything
> except web clients in reality) that do not support proxies due to the
> packet filter active on traffic in and out of the room. 
> We setup transparent proxying for ftp and web traffic on the router and
> redirect it all to the UQ proxy.  

Web traffic's easy. As David said, he was doing this a while ago, and it
worked great for when navy's web browser didn't support proxies.

How do we do the ftp proxying though? I've had a look around for something
like this a few times, but haven't found anything helpful. Is this true
transparent proxying, or an ftp proxy, or something different, btw?

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Robert Brockway wrote:

> The method suggested in my post on transparent proxying at meetings could
> also be used by uq student ppp boxes to get around the problesm they have
> (reserved ips) and make ftp and web connections transparent.

Student & staff ppp connections now, btw.

If anyone could go into a little bit more detail about transparent ftp
proxying, though, I'd be most appreciative. I'd like to set that up on
azure sometime...

Cheers,
aj

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Anthony Towns -- <aj at humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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