[H-GEN] Transparent proxying at meetings

Robert Brockway robert at zen.humbug.org.au
Thu Jan 8 23:32:06 EST 1998


On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:

> 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?

We can do it the same way we did the web stuff.  Remember web proxies
proxy ftp as well.  The kernel of the router catches the packets and
redirects them to the uq proxy transparently.
 
> Student & staff ppp connections now, btw.

Yeah I know, I upgraded.
 
> 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...

We can implement it tommorrow if we like :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at zen.humbug.org.au, robert at icc.net.au
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