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Re: Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box



Joe Potter wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit
> a brick wall.
> 
> I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and
> manually tell it where to find the proxy, i.e. at 127.0.0.1 and port
> 3128. The logs (/var/log/squid/access.log) show everything working just
> fine.
> 
> The problem is that I can not get the transparent portion working. The
> how-tos on the net (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy.html)
> seem to all involve setting up a server with two nic cards and so forth.
> I will need that at some point, but right now I just want to redirect
> all calls to port 80 on this one box for all users to port 3128 so the
> use of squid becomes mandatory. In fact, I just want to see it work one
> time on my account.
> 
> I am sitting behind a firewall router and do not run an iptables
> firewall now. Hence, I can use any fire wall to get this job done. It is
> just this one box I would love to see work.
> 
> A little help please?
> 
> 
> Regards, Joe
> 
> 

Hello all,

I found it. I forgot to let squid itself talk to port 80. Seems that
caused a bit of trouble.

Regards, Joe



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