Re: Tranparent Proxy on --Help

>
> Yes, if you have a external NAT device doing the
> required address
> translation then you do not need any at the host.
>
> However, be warned that such a setup can have a hard
> time supporting old
> clients not sending Host headers. There are two
> possible configurations
> that do indeed work fine:
> a) A NAT device for which there exists interface
> code to Squid to allow
> Squid to query the NAT device what the real
> destination address is.
> b) If the router/switch has a HTTP proxy module
> which does the required
> request translation and not only address
> translation. The required
> request translation involves 1: If the request has a
> Host: header,
> reconstruct the URL using this. 2: Else use the
> destination IP address
> when reconstructing the URL.

Thanks Henrik! I am going to try it out in my lab in
next 10 days and then I will post the result.
>
> Does the FAQ contain any detail information for when
> using a external
> NAT device?

FAQ does not give clear deatils about it Transparent
proxy. It says you need to compile it using
--enable-ipf-transparent switch.

Gyan Prakash.
Squid Fan.
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Received on Sat May 01 1999 - 09:19:42 MDT