Re: [squid-users] Transparant Caching with iptables

a-o-a

     U actually got the toattly wrong url to configure
wccp, you can never configure wccp usig that
Instructions, its for transparent caching, but in
which squid machine is acting as a gateway. U must
read squid FAQ 17 for intercepting cahing.

--- SysAdmin <squidref@yuktee.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking for transparent caching with iptables.
>
> I setup a squid box with Mandrake 8.0 with Kernel
> 2.4.3
>
> I used the following command to redirect the port 80
> requests to 3128 but seams not working
>
> iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport
> 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128
>
> I checked with my router... it is redirecting the
> packets to the squid box (wccp configured). Nothing
> turning up in access.log
>
> Can any body helpme out?
>
> iptables -t nat -L gave me the following out put
>
> [root@root /root]# iptables -t nat -L
> Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> REDIRECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere
> tcp dpt:http redir ports 3128
>
> Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
> target prot opt source destination
> [root@root /root]#
>
>
> I could not get where exactly I went wrong? I
> followed the folloing url to setup the transperant
> proxy/caching.
>
>
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TransparentProxy.html
>
> Bhaskar
>
>

=====
Regards,
Mohsin Khan

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Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 02:02:58 MST