Re: transparent proxy or not?

Why not simply run transproxy, and let it translate the requests
for you. It is easy, and works with any kernel that can handle
simple redirection. I've done it on 2.0.x, 2.2.x and 2.3.99

Then you simply use standard proxy configuration.

Cheers,
David

>
> I've looked through the archives and I haven't seen anything similar to my
> situation so here I am :)
>
> My ISP provides a squid proxy service on the standard 3128 port.
>
> I am currently behind an ipfilter/ipnat firewall. What I'd like to setup is
> that all my http requests get redirected to my ISP's proxy server.
>
> I first tried doing this directly, by redirecting all port 80 outgoing to my
> ISP's proxy.
>
> rdr ed1 0/0 port 80 -> a.b.c.d port 3128
>
> It appears that they don't have it setup to accept transparent requests as
> it always seems to report an "invalid host header" or the like.
>
> So I was trying to setup the following.
>
> redirect all traffic to my own squid proxy.
> rdr ed1 0/0 port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 3128
>
> and I was hoping that my squid proxy, would then talk to my isp's squid
> proxy to grab http data.
>
> I have the following in my squid.conf
>
> httpd_accel_host virtual
> httpd_accel_port 80
> httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
>
> cache_peer proxy.dsl.ca parent 3128 3130 proxy-only <- my ISP's
> squid proxy.
>
> All I seem to get with this config is a standard transparent proxy. The
> http requests are still coming out directly from my machine instead of
> through my isp's proxy.
>
> I am using 2.3STABLE of squid on FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> - Will
>
Received on Wed Jun 07 2000 - 05:15:06 MDT