Re: TRANSPARENT PROXY

On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Dave Zarzycki wrote:

> On 12/20/97 9:47 PM, Patrick (indigo@trancenet.ml.org) wrote:
>
> >it sounds like a good "cause" how does it speed up the process? i am not
> >doubting that it does because i have seen prof. proxy servers, etc.
>
> Two reasons:
>
> It takes time to fetch stuff from the internet, no matter how fast your
> connection is.
>
> There is no reason to transmit the same bytes more than once over a slow
> link, when it can be used for something else.
dont you have to transfer from proxy->client ????
>
> >> The first question I have to ask is, have you compiled your kernel with
> >> the necessary options?
> >yes
>
> including ip_forwarding, transparent proxy, etc?
yes

> >> What version of squid are you using?
> >1.1.9
>
> Err... You might want to update...
why is that?
>
> >> What distribution of Linux are you using? version?
> >2.0.32
slackware, but it doesnt have a slack respective v now because it is a
very new kernel (newest stable)

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Received on Sat Dec 20 1997 - 22:12:04 MST