Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:50:10
Message-Id: 201201252049.06860.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 17:11:36 felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:14:22PM +0000, Mick wrote:
3 > > On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 felix@×××××××.com wrote:
4
5 > > I'm not entirely clear of your use case scenarios and the constraints you
6 > > are trying to address with a proxy (e.g. why the developer does not
7 > > connect directly to the vendors port(s) to access their service? ) but
8 > > I'll guess that
9 >
10 > Because if the devs connect directly to the vendor, they will take
11 > over the limited connections we are allowed. Thus they need
12 > throttling and/or some kind of NAT.
13
14 OK, I understand now. I guess some reverse proxies offer the ability to
15 throttle throughput and/or you can also apply QoS so that internal connections
16 to the vendors are always given priority, while external connections coming
17 from the devs are constrained appropriately.
18
19 --
20 Regards,
21 Mick

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