Firewalls: Re: Transparency: New Question

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Subject:	Re: Transparency: New Question
From:	"Rick Murphy" <rick @ trusted . com>
Date:	Tue, 06 Aug 1996 22:27:34 EDT
To:	Greg Brennan <brenngp @ onto . network . com>
Cc:	firewalls mailing list <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>, rick @ hilo . trusted . com
In-reply-to:	Your message of "Tue, 06 Aug 1996 17:27:00 EDT." <3207C6C3 @ mnbp . network . com>

>Recently, I have been told by an industry 'expert' that traditional proxy 
>gateways that claim to be "transparent", achieve this transparency by only 
>forcing the 'connect' packets through the proxy, and all other packets 
>associated with that connection move directly from one interface to the 
>other.

At least in the Gauntlet case, this "expert" is wrong - all packets pass 
through the proxy.
	-Rick

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Transparency: New Question
From: Greg Brennan <brenngp @ onto . network . com>

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