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Re: Tproxy -Just How useful is it?

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On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 00:37 +0100, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> lör 2006-11-11 klockan 00:11 +0800 skrev Ow Mun Heng:
> > Perhaps I just don't get it. I just upgraded to 2.6.3 and then all of a
> > sudden, I read baout this TPROXY feature.
> > It enables client and server ip spoofing and it basically bypasses the
> > cache (so as to make it really really transparent etc).
> 
> It doesn't bypass cache. It just allows Squid to masquerade using the
> original clients IP on outgoing requests.

Yeah.. That's what my english meant. :-)
> 
> > So.. if I understand it correctly, the aim of tproxy is to fix all the
> > shortcomings with that of a "normal" squid 2.5 version of transparent
> > caching which will wreck havoc in some circumstances right??
> 
> No. Only to make the proxy less visible.
> 
> You will still have the same TCP/IP protocol issues if not more.
> The only problem it might solve is access those sites not happy when a
> user changes IP when going from http to https.

That's the only good thing about tproxy support? That seems a bit
little.(to me anyway)


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