Very Dissapointed
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Jun 9 13:51:41 GMT 2005
On 2005-06-09 08:59, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at 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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