Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:42:24 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> Cc: hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ipfw divert, transparent proxy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970724154016.869m-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <33D6E265.46DEFC7@3skel.com>
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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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