The Concise Guide to Proxies

We often mention that the benefits derived from some application delivery controllers are due to the nature of being a full proxy. And in the same breath we might mention reverse, half, and forward p...

Published Oct 02, 2008

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RajaShajeelAhmed

Cirrus

Nov 23, 2022

So when we use Virtual servers type L2 or L4 Forwarding its like a half proxy as we are not maintaing connections between client--F5--Server. Only standard Virtual servers can be called full proxy.