[AusNOG] Firewall authentication from Telstra 3G connections

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Mon Jun 18 12:56:50 EST 2012


In message <4FDE982E.2070902 at vapourforge.com>, Jake Anderson writes:
> 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.

	http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6598

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