Digex was the first carrier to publicly announce support for the inktomi proxy. http://www.inktomi.com/new/press/caching.html
From memory, the alteon switch was a layer 4 switch that changed the destination interface.
The Solaris box then, in turn, pulled the destination address out of the received packet, and fired up an outgoing connection based on that destination address. I did the same thing with Squid and IPFilter on my personal solaris box, transparently proxying. I didn't think that the Alteon talked any special protocol, just re-routed traffic based on destination port. How does the Mirror Image box do anything different? I thought this was a common hack used by MI, NetApp, NetCache and the Squid users out there, do they all do something fancier/simpler? Best regards, Jamie Scheinblum - FASTNET(tm) / You Tools Corporation jamie@fast.net (888)321-FAST(3278) http://www.fast.net FASTNET - Business and Personal Internet Solutions The views stated above are representative of myself, not my employer.
-----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [SMTP:jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 8:36 PM To: Paul Vixie Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
On 25 Jun 1998, Paul Vixie wrote:
I don't think Digex is using one of our boxes, and if they are using one of the "just run Inktomi software on a Solaris box and put an Alteon next to it" then there are going to be some wierd little unspecified protocol violations that only Alteon, and a new protocol between Alteon and Inktomi,
The proxy we seem to be trapped with is: REMOTE_HOST = dca1-wc2.atlas.digex.net REMOTE_ADDR = 165.117.17.251
Trying 165.117.17.251... Connected to 165.117.17.251. Escape character is '^]'.
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