[K12OSN] transparent proxying fix??

Burke Almquist balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Fri Aug 11 23:27:25 UTC 2006


Doesn't the default setup (for K12LTSP, not FC in general) assume  
that ETH0 is internal when setting up DHCP and the other network  
devices?? And any ETH1 is external. I mean you can change that but it  
IS the default.

On Aug 11, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Eric Harrison wrote:

> Burke Almquist wrote:
>> To me that makes more sense. Why would you be proxying traffic on the
>> external interface??
>
> <Standard disclaimer: I'm re-inventing history here>
>
> I believe the logic went like this:
>
>   1) Is it 100% safe to assume that eth0 is the internal interface?  
> No.
>   2) Is it 100% safe to have the redirect on all interfaces? Yes.
>
>   therefore: it makes sense to have the redirect on all interfaces.
>
>
>
> You have presented an edge-case that proves assumption #2 to be  
> incorrect.
>
> That leaves us with the problem of finding a new way to mitigate
> assumption #1 ;-)
>
> -Eric
>




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