Re: NAT 4 Linux (project)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 12:59:42 +0100 (BST)

> But that isn't efficient in the slightest. From a simple
> request->response, you've created a request->redirect->request->response
> chain. Add the possibility of the redirect being to a different host and

But if its done right only for the first lookup. Also since folks tend
to request http://blah they get a redirect first.

> Now, if you could actually hand off the network connection to another box,
> without having to send any client-bound messages, that would be cool.

ipport_vfw does that but purely by load not by inspecting URLs - by the time
you are inspecting URLS you are at application layer. Then you want
take the overhead of a redirect on the first query because that removes
a single point of failure

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