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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:24:15 -0500
From:      John Prince <johnp@knight-trosoft.com>
To:        FreeBSD Technical Reader <kernel@acromail.ml.org>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com>, hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ipfw divert, transparent proxy 
Message-ID:  <199707262124.QAA12726@knight.knight-trosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:32:31 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726123020.9794C-100000@acromail.ml.org> 

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--John

FreeBSD Technical Reader writes:
> 
> I know I could be banned for life for saying this --- but you could also
> use a linux machine and the ipmasquerading built into the kernel for doing
> this, there are no equivalent features in FreeBSD and it works much better
> than natd (Ipmasquerading is one of the things i miss from linux). Please
> forgive me for this sin.
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dan Janowski wrote:
> > 
> > > I am replacing an old TIS firewall that has one very
> > > interesting feature that I am looking to provide with my
> > > FreeBSD 2.2.2 box. It is this:
> > > 
> > > They use ipfs which has the capability of "transparently" doing
> > > packet re-rerouting and, thereby, proxy transparently.
> > 
> > It is a nice feature, and divert sockets is the way to do it in FreeBSD, 
> > but it has not been done yet.  <peter@clari.net.au> got half-way through 
> > a transparent http proxy using divert sockets, but did a tcpdump analysis 
> > of his customers' traffic and found that < 1% were not using the proxy, 
> > so he did not bother finishing the code (too busy on paying work).
> > 
> > Danny
> > 
> 
> 






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