Actually, there are level 4 switches which may be used for that purpose,
they are available from Alteon.
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ben Kohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Squid-Users Mailing List
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, 16 March, 1999 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Transparent Proxying and IP Forwarding
>Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> Third, it requires redirection of incoming network traffic much in the
>> same way as client traffic is redirected to Squid in an transparent
>> proxy setup. Only difference is that redirection is done based on the
>> source port of incoming traffic this time.
>
>Correction: All incoming TCP and ICMP traffic must be redirected to the
>proxy server unless a very clever TCP level router is used which
>bidirectionally routes TCP connections and not IP packets (never heard
>of such a beast but it could exist, very doubtful hovewer).
>
>---
>Henrik Nordstrom
>Spare time Squid hacker
>
>
