Re: Forward http traffic

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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Brian Miller <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> that doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> a SYN packet comes in, is forwarded to serverA and serverB
>>
>> both servers reply with an 'ack'....  man, is the client tcp stack going
>> to be confused!
>
>
> He didn't say anything about both servers replying, only that he wanted
> to mirror all port 80 traffic.  Maybe he's trying to develop a protocol
> specific IDS, or maybe he wants to build some sort of OOB transaction
> log of his HTTP traffic.

But if you are going to do that, you probably wouldn't need (or want)
the IP addresses to be modified in the packets - you'd make it work at
layer 2 and use a switch with a monitor port (or for lower bandwidth,
an old fashioned hub) to fan out copies of the packets.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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