On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 17:11:36 felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 06:14:22PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> > I'm not entirely clear of your use case scenarios and the constraints you
> > are trying to address with a proxy (e.g. why the developer does not
> > connect directly to the vendors port(s) to access their service? ) but
> > I'll guess that
> 
> Because if the devs connect directly to the vendor, they will take
> over the limited connections we are allowed.  Thus they need
> throttling and/or some kind of NAT.

OK, I understand now.  I guess some reverse proxies offer the ability to 
throttle throughput and/or you can also apply QoS so that internal connections 
to the vendors are always given priority, while external connections coming 
from the devs are constrained appropriately.

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Regards,
Mick