Three transparent proxy?

breathn

I don't suppose I'd find any official data on this, but does anyone in-the-know have a clue if Three Ireland operate a transparent HTTP proxy on their network?

My gut feeling is yes because I often experience periods of extreme HTTP laggyness but other SSL traffic is just fine and quick.

Anyone have any ideas?

watty

yes they do.

Sponge Bob

as do UPC and Imagine

breathn

Thanks guys.
The difference seems to be that in my personal experience, the Three proxy goes absolutely crazy frequently causing content not to load or take many many seconds to be returned, or sometime really slow.

All the time while my SSH tunneled traffic is perfectly snappy, so thanks for confirming that for me!

Do you guys happen to know much about their proxies?

t0mm13b

YEs they do, in fact, my server is a linux box with 3 modem attached to it and there's two private ip and one public ip based on the APN (Access Point Name) - 3ireland.ie and 3netaccess are the two private (proxy!) and the last one is 3internet which is public - meaning you could host a website on it and it's directly accessible - but make sure your firewall is the best!!!

Plebs

breathn wrote: »

I don't suppose I'd find any official data on this, but does anyone in-the-know have a clue if Three Ireland operate a transparent HTTP proxy on their network?

My gut feeling is yes because I often experience periods of extreme HTTP laggyness but other SSL traffic is just fine and quick.

Anyone have any ideas?

Is your router IPv6 compatible?

Try typing about:config into the address bar in Mozilla Firefox. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to "false". Lots of Linux users with those crappy Eircom Netopia routers need to do this...

breathn

Plebs wrote: »

Is your router IPv6 compatible?

Try typing about:config into the address bar in Mozilla Firefox. Set network.dns.disableIPv6 to "false". Lots of Linux users with those crappy Eircom Netopia routers need to do this...

As far as I can tell, Three don't support IPv6 at all. I never get assigned an IPv6 address and I can't reach any IPv6 destinations

Plebs

breathn wrote: »

As far as I can tell, Three don't support IPv6 at all. I never get assigned an IPv6 address and I can't reach any IPv6 destinations

Oh right. But maybe your browser is looking to connect to an IPv6? I know my Eircom netopia router doesn't support IPv6 and it causes huge delays when I don't make that about:config change. But you probably have a different problem by the sounds of things.

Apparently Meteor also have some crazy blueproxy proxy that filters/alters packets and is not even HTML5 compatible.

watty

IP6 should be disabled on the PC network adaptor on MAC, Windows or Linux unless you have IP6 LAN and suitable router and possibly IP6 support from ISP (not any mobile provider anyway). Disabling in Browser is a Kludge

Plebs

watty wrote: »

IP6 should be disabled on the PC network adaptor on MAC, Windows or Linux unless you have IP6 LAN and suitable router and possibly IP6 support from ISP (not any mobile provider anyway). Disabling in Browser is a Kludge

So how does one disable IPv6 on say, Ubuntu, without "kludging"?

watty

Remove it from the network device using the GUI network control and properties of the Interface. Very like Windows. You can of course open a terminal and use vi to edit the appropriate configuration files if you want to do it the old fashioned way. A quick search will reveal the details if you are lost.

Plebs

watty wrote: »

Remove it from the network device using the GUI network control and properties of the Interface. Very like Windows. You can of course open a terminal and use vi to edit the appropriate configuration files if you want to do it the old fashioned way. A quick search will reveal the details if you are lost.

Even if you set your IPv6 settings to "ignore" in Ubuntu's "Network Connections", Firefox (and Opera) still tries to get an IPv6 address causing big delays. Apparently IPv6 is embedded deep in the latest kernels.

I have IPv6 turned off in Firefox using about:config and when I'm making an ssh connection, I do an explicit "ssh -4 xxx" I'd like to be able to flick some bit in a configuration file somewhere, but I've yet to come across such a thing in Ubuntu.

watty

Go to www.google.ie

type disable IP6 Ubuntu into the search box.

hit return

Read.

I've done this on EVERY linux that I have installed since they included IP6. I don't know which version of Ubuntu you have, so read up. If there is a GUI method for your Ubuntu, try it first as the configuration editing instructions may be wrong, for a different version or you may make a mistake. (Like Registry edit vs Control panel app in Windows).

You are using a router and have its IP as sole gateway address on Ubuntu? If you use a 3G dongle directly you may wish to install IPtables/NAT/Firewall etc and have the features of a Router/NAT/Firewall like OpenWRT "built in" to increase security and reliability. Then any ethernet port and WIFi can be bridged and be on the "LAN" so that the Ubuntu can be a router and WiFi airpoint for other PCs and Gadgets.