> From owner-wrec@cs.utk.edu Thu Jun 24 09:21:22 1999
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:18:24 +0200
> To: ian@mirror-image.com (Ian Cooper), <dforster@cisco.com>,
> "Josh Cohen (Exchange)" <joshco@Exchange.Microsoft.com>
> From: John Martin <jmartin@netapp.com>
> Subject: Re: Taxonomy draft, draft-melve-wrec-taxonomy-00.txt
> Cc: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@hem.passagen.se>, wrec@cs.utk.edu
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> Henrik, Ian,
>
> For me the definition of 'transparent proxy' is more about the
> communication flow. With a 'transparent proxy' deployment, the user
> (client) attempts to make a TCP connection to the IP address of the origin
> server; in the non-transparent case, it attempts to make a connection to
> the proxy.
That's TCP-level transparent. There are IP-level transparent ones too.
And link-level transparent (moving the link address around, e.g.,
via ATM clustering).
Joe
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