[tproxy] Is the project still alive?

Lennert Buytenhek buytenh at wantstofly.org
Mon Dec 14 13:33:56 CET 2015


On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:16:02PM +0200, Vitaly Repin wrote:

> I am looking for the way to make a really transparent TCP proxy: in
> particular, if TCP connection is being established by the client (TCP
> SYN was sent), I don't want the proxy to answer with TCP SYN+ACK but I
> want it to send client's TCP SYN package to the remote server and wait
> for it to answer. And then answer to the client with the server's
> packet.
> 
> Can this goal be achieved with the help of tproxy of are you aware of
> any other solution which can help me?

I hacked something like this up a while ago:

	http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2002-11/msg00271.html

This particular patch was kind of dodgy, and I dropped working on it
because there wasn't a whole lot of interest in it, but maybe this is
a useful starting point.


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