I know this is just my opinion, but, if it was me
I would use a dedicated hardware device as the vpn/ppp client
and just pipe that out to a switch to make things less complicated
Like you could use a DDWRT enabled router, or Many other platforms to do
this dirtywork for you.
That way your work on the squid side would be a heck of a lot easier.
But then again, thats just me.
On 03/19/2012 07:53 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 20.03.2012 15:30, zozo zozo wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I've setup squid and it works if I forward network from eth0 to wlan0
>> (ap mode)
>> But if instead of ethernet I try to use ppp0 packets, squid doesn't
>> forward stuff, and in access log entries were something like 0_ABORTED
>> (don't have those logs at hand, will provide more info tomorrow)
>> Ports that are not sent to squid work fine, ICMP and HTTPS are
>> forwarded correctly.
>>
>> ppp0 is interface created by wvdial (I share 3G modem internet)
>> syslog doesn't show anything interesting
>>
>> Is there anything special to know about ppp and squid?
>
> Just that squid does not interact with NIC directly.
> Squid sends packets with a source IP address (set by either
> tcp_outgoing_address or system-selected default IP). What happens to
> those packets is up to the OS routing.
>
> Amos
>
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