On 28 Jun 1998, Paul Vixie wrote:
And in these senses (cut through with segment reblocking; reasonable/modern TCP handling; more use of persistent HTTP), someone with tcpdump actually would be able to tell that my particular transparent caching box was in use. I'll leave the challenge to Karl open, though, since I meant specifically "be ableto tell from the client or server end" not "be able to tell using tcpdump on a LAN wire upstream of the caching box". --
And more and more per IP subscription services will need pages like: http://www.iop.org/cgi-bin/checkup for their customers to debug all these transparent proxies that may or may not be in the path.
Paul Vixie La Honda, CA "Many NANOG members have been around <paul@vix.com> longer than most." --Jim Fleming pacbell!vixie!paul (An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network)
Hank Nussbacher