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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:25:15 +1300
From:      Tom Peck <tom@masaclaw.co.nz>
To:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: 1 IP - 1 Firewall - 2 Webservers
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20011213102507.02807928@mail.masaclaw.co.nz>

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Hi Johan

At 08:13 12/12/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>I perhaps should have read all of the mail.....
>
>Well - Squid got X-Forwarded for,
>And that't easy to configure Apache to look into, I believe that the
>newer IIS server if that's used also are quite good at that type of
>access.
>
>If I remember correctly doing a reverse proxy under Apache would
>(with the proxy-pass-reverse) produce pretty much the same result.
>
>But another thing comes to mind, squid do produce quite nice logs
>as well?


It would, but I would prefer to save the gateways recourses (log files can 
become quite large..) and to have each web server looking after it's own 
logs - so basically once the gateway box has been configured, it should 
never need to be touched again.

Tom



>/JE
>
>
>Unix is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Lars Eggert
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:53 PM
> > To: Tom Peck
> > Cc: johan.edstrom@sca.com; freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: 1 IP - 1 Firewall - 2 Webservers
> >
> >
> > Tom Peck wrote:
> >
> > > How would this work?  The two web servers aren't accessible straight
> > > from the Internet - traffic goes via the gateway box.
> >
> > I bet he forgot to mention that the gateway is also a NAT box. Since
> > squid does app-level relaying, HTTP isn't affected.
> >
> > Lars
> > --
> > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>               Information Sciences Institute
> > http://www.isi.edu/larse/             University of Southern California
> >
> >
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