RE: [squid-users] HELP WITH IPTABLES !!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damian Mantelli (A.C.A.R.A) [mailto:dmantelli@acara.org.ar]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: Squid Users
> Subject: [squid-users] HELP WITH IPTABLES !!
> Importance: High
>
>
> Hi my name is Damian, I am from Argentina and I am a member
> of mailing list
> of SQUID users.
> I want that all the traffic of my local net goes across my SQUID proxy
> server. I want to say that all the packages will be forwarded
> to the port
> 3128 of my Squid Server.
> maybe you can help me.
>
> Here it is an example of my current Net in my office
>
> -->LocalNet 192.168.0.1/27----ETH0--> (SQUID
> 192.168.0.28:3128 SERVER)<--
> ETH1 -->INTERNET
>
> I have ready set up a couple of rules with Iptables, but I
> can?t understand
> what I am doing wrong.
>
> I want that HTTP, HTTPS, MSN, POP3, SMTP all of these ports,
> and others
> without much importance will be forwarded across my Squid
> proxy server.
>

--SNIP--

>
> Pardon for the inconveniences.
>
>
> Thanks you very much for your help.
>
> Damian Mantelli
> ARGENTINA
>

This will not work. Squid is strictly an HTTP proxy, and (to the best of my knowledge) can only intercept HTTP communications (not HTTPS, or any of the rest). Some services can be explicitly told to use an HTTP proxy, but what you are attempting is just not going to work.

Chris
Received on Wed Aug 31 2005 - 13:46:11 MDT