[AusNOG] Firewall authentication from Telstra 3G connections

Jake Anderson yahoo at vapourforge.com
Mon Jun 18 12:53:34 EST 2012


On 15/06/12 13:43, Scott Howard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr 
> <rendrag at rendrag.net <mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net>> wrote:
>
>     Isn't that standard behaviour with any ISP with a (forced) proxy? 
>     All HTTP requests come from the proxy IP, all other traffic comes
>     from the end user's IP?
>
>
> Not at all.  Any ISP doing a transparent proxy should be doing "IP 
> Spoofing" so that the connection still appears to come from the client 
> IP address. That's not to say that they all do, but...
>
> That said, I would hope that the "authentication" is occurring over 
> HTTPS, and there's no reason any ISP should be running a transparent 
> proxy for SSL traffic.
>
>   Scott
Last time i looked my clients were getting private address ranges (10.*) 
using telstra business internet.
Which was fine until it overlapped the private range their office was 
using and broke the VPN.


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