RE: hi! I is it a way to make a transparent proxy server for ftp and telnet?

> From: Eric Wang [SMTP:eric@otherways.com]
>
> Is it a way to make a transparent proxy server for ftp and telnet?
>
        What possible added value would a transparent
        proxy add over simply opening port 23 on the
        firewall for telnet?

        Similar arguments would apply to ftp, except that
        you could limit people to particular directories and
        cache (although I haven't heard of non HTTP proxies
        which do this - but haven't looked for them either).

        I think the main reason that ISPs run transparent
        HTTP proxies is to force people to use the cache,
        although access filtering and market researching their
        customers might be secondary reasons.
Received on Thu Jan 06 2000 - 11:24:44 MST