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From: "Peter Chubb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ian Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Richard Gooch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telstra using Transparent proxy on ADSL network
> They do this for metering, I think -- I worked on the cable system
> for a while, and when I was working on it, *everything* was proxied
> through a gauntlet firewall, where the proxies have been altered to
> measure traffic and assign it to individual users. Traffic to the
> `free zones' is not metered -- that's handled by the proxy cache.
Given that they charge for news download, I seriously doubt this. They're
almost certainly using straight IP accounting. The proxies are caching
proxies [I've proven this to myself already by altering web pages and
getting the old content from the proxy]. And its done to reduce the burden
on Telstra's uplinks.
C.
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