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From: "Richard Gooch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:18 PM
Subject: [SLUG] [INFO] Setting up ADSL
> Hi, all. Here are some brief notes to add to the archives which
> describe what I did to get Telstra ADSL working with Linux 2.4.0:
>
> - if you want to use a WWW proxy, specify melbourne.cache.telstra.net
> on port 80 (not 8080!). You can use sydney.cache.telstra.net
> instead, but it will be slower, since everything is being routed to
> Melbourne (Sydneysiders: revolt!:-).
>
I wouldn't bother with the proxy stuff. The one thing that is bad about the
current ADSL offering,
You know how there is a pregnant pause before the web pages come through...
seems about the same awfull delay you get when you configure for the telstra
proxy farm .. right?
Hmm, feels like a proxy
Do a telnet from the adsl system to port 80 on an outside system, then do a
"netstat -a", guess what, no connection.
Hmm, smells like a proxy.
Use lynx to browse back to my host, "netstat -a", and see a connection from
the following host:
Name: netcache-c6100.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au
Address: 61.9.128.141
Yep definately a proxy, any other connection will get straight through.
But port 80 is being redirected.
I cannot recall seing anything in the terms and conditions that said that
Telstra was going to redirect my packets through a transparent proxy.
regards, Ian
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