Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy

On 21-Feb-02 at 16:41, jayabaya's inspired musing was thus :
> if i put proxy manually to my browser, all my request to any web server
> will be thorugh port 8080 (squid).
> if i dont, all my request is directly to port 80 at the web server i
> requested.
>
> i've put redirect option at my ipchains rules (ipchains -A input -p tcp -d
> 0/0 80 -j REDIRECT 8080)
> my kernel has support CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y (slackware 7.1;kernel
> 2.2.19)
> and my squid.conf already have a configurations for transparent proxy :
> http_port 8080
> httpd_accel_host VIRTUAL
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>
> what else do you need to know?
> or maybe i did some mistake during installation? i'm really not sure about
> it....
> you can yell at me though :) if i really stupid to see any mistaken
>
> thx
>

Is Squid running on the same machine as the firewall? If it isn't, then your
IP chains rule needs to redirect to the Squid machine.

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