packet redirection (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 00:52:15 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jacob Suter shaped the electrons to say...
>modem user makes request to somewhere.on.the.net:80, then because of the
>redirection rules, it redirect that packet to one cirtain box, say
>proxy.intrastar.net:3128, or something like that.

We don't do this. Forcing redirection doesn't work for most things.
The browser would only accept packets back from the host it called in the
first place. It would be better to put a proxy server in the upstream
path at a chokepoint.

-MZ

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