North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
The Vixie Interceptor is really the only product on the market that handles this particualr situation correctly - it is a fine product in that respect. Paul and his group - worked thorugh that issue with very fine detail. To the best of my knowledge Digex is using the Inktomi/Alteon solution. On 25 Jun 1998, Paul Vixie wrote: > Odd. The box we used to sell through Mirror Image Internet has no problems > reaching Cybercash's site -- though I'll admit that we had a lot of angry > customers for a long time while we found all the wierd little unspecified > protocol violations that "just work" if no "hijacking" takes place. > > 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, > could fix. (Our box integrates forwarding and "hijacking" and this is why.) <snip> > The box we built was designed for access providers -- you know, put 1,000 > modems in a room and sell dialup accounts. It works fine in that context. > And, dialup users are usually not terribly deep as technologists, and they > are used to having their bits mutilated in the great cause of "overcommit." > > While a T1 data rate would present no real problem, a T1 customer who would > usually recognize what was happening to them AND care about it, *would* > represent a problem. And besides, a T1 customer would probably be willing > and able to use ICP or at least run their own local cache and point their > browsers at it nontransparently. -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - [email protected]
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