Re: trnsparent proxy

From: Garlic <garlic@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:00:09 -0700

If the router is Cisco, use WCCP....

Daniel Suen wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We are planing on using transparent proxy, however, after reading the
> documentation, we still want some clarifications. The problem is that,
> transparent proxy can't be made possible if I try to use two or more
> proxy servers on the same subnet.
>
> >From the documentation, it says that I can configure the router to pass
> all port 80 packets untouched to a subnet that I specify, on which I have
> a transparent proxy server that sucks these packets and serve the requests.
> As the transparent proxy server os must be configured to suck up packets not
> addressed to itself, this means that if I place another tansparent proxy server
> in the same subnet, it is not going to work.
>
> What I want to ask is that, in the current state of art, how can I put
> several proxy servers to achieve load balancing if transparent proxy is to
> be used? Maybe I have some misunderstanding on the documentation. Our goal
> is to make proxy transparent to users, as well as achieve some sort of
> load sharing. Appreciate any suggestions!
>
> -daniel.
Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 11:02:58 MDT

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