Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:51:24 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very Dissapointed Message-ID: <20050609135124.GA67573@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <5341204f22db0c3969e6d161e2fa5b0f@chrononomicon.com> References: <200506091145.j59BjAO6028202@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <200506090739.57892.lane@joeandlane.com> <5341204f22db0c3969e6d161e2fa5b0f@chrononomicon.com>
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On 2005-06-09 08:59, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> wrote: >On Jun 9, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Lane wrote: >> I don't know the concept "transparent proxy." Hopefully you will >> discover how that works as you build your firewall :) > > I think a transparent proxy is a proxy that your users didn't know > they were going through...their machines use it without any manual > configuration to point to it, and usually they don't have a choice. Bridging may also help a lot there. A machine that sits between two networks and acts as a bridge can still filter traffic with IPFW, but it has no IP address, so it's effectively "invisible" to the two sides of the network.
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