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Re: Digex transparent proxying

  • From: Mark Milhollan
  • Date: Sat Jun 27 15:44:39 1998

Karl Denninger writes:
>(performance for the FIRST fetch through a proxy
>is SLOWER - it HAS TO BE, since the proxy must first get the data before it
>can pass it on).

It doesn't have to -- think cut-thru switching.  I've no idea if
any/enough of the proxies do this.