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Anatomy of a partnership: Working and learning with Smoothwall Aaron West
Loadbalancer.org’s evolving approach to partnerships reflects what’s at the heart of our ethos. The human element builds understanding, and the better we can understand our partners, the better we can meet their needs.

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Web Filters / Proxy
Transparent vs Explicit proxy — which method should I use? Neil Hosking
Different vendors have widely different opinions on which method should be used to deploy web filters or SWGs (secure web gateways). Historically, vendors struggled to implement authentication in Transparent mode, and maybe they remember some

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Web Filters / Proxy
Web Filters / Proxy
What exactly is a Reverse Proxy? Aaron West
"I don't think we can use your load balancer, because it's not a reverse proxy..." said the slightly confused reseller. Which got me thinking, maybe I should write a blog about the difference

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High Availability
NTLM authenticating proxy check script Mark Brookes
We do quite a bit of work with web proxy vendors, load balancing multiple web filters/proxies with our appliances and our customers have requested a way of health checking through the proxy when they

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