IP Transparency and Direct Server Return with NGINX and NGINX Plus as Transparent Proxy
IP Transparency and Direct Server Return with NGINX and NGINX Plus as Transparent Proxy table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } This blog post describes how to configure the open source NGINX software or NGINX Plus as a “transparent” proxy for traffic to upstream servers. It explains how you can use a transparent proxy to spoof the source IP address of packets to implement IP Transparency, and how you can implement a load‑balancing mode called Direct Server Return for UDP traffic. The information in this post apply to both the open source NGINX software and NGINX Plus. For the sake of brevity, we’ll refer only to NGINX Plus. Introducing Reverse Proxies Unlike a switch or router that simply forwards [ more… ]