Re: Trans Proxying FTP

From: Brian <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 09:07:10 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Karl Ferguson wrote:

> At 09:40 PM 2/04/98 -0600, Brian wrote:
> >> And if your squid server is not your router, you can use a nifty program on
> >> the *nix box called transproxy to redirect them to your squid available at
> >> ftp://ftp.nlc.net.au/pub/linux/www - works well.
> >>
> >
> >This is of course assuming your *nix box is the router correct?
>
> Not at all - let's take the following pictorial to make it easier:
>
> Internet
> |
> Router
> |
> Unix Box 1 Proxy Server Unix Box 2 Unix Box 3

I still don't see where this would make sense for a traditional ISP model,
where the user flow goes:

users modem-----NAS-------router-----------internet

The only place port 80 is going to be intercepted here is at the router,
which is what I am doing. Are you talking about putting the *nix box
between the NAS and the router? Perhaps making the *nix box the default
route out of your NAS?

>
>
> On the Unix boxes, you use firewall software (I use ipfwadm) to redirect
> all port 80 requests to whatever port the transproxy daemon is sitting on
> (default is 81). The transproxy daemon then converts and redirects all
> requests to yor proxy server at whatever port.
>
> If the Router was a Unix Box, then you've got it made - you don't need
> transproxy. Simply redirect port 80 to port 3128 and boom.
>
> This stuff is more or less all in the Squid FAQ at:
>
> http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-5.html#ss5.8
>
> Regards
>
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