Re: [squid-users] Squid for windows

If you can find a way to intercept TCP traffic then there is no reason to why
Squid would not be able to use it.

The support for transparently intercepting cache is mostly a matter of TCP/IP
implementation, not so much Squid.

What can be told is that you can implement a limited form of such
interception by using NAT if TCP interception cannot be found for the OS in
question. Simply have your NAT the requests to the destination of the Squid
server, and configure Squid for "transparent proxy" operation.

However, without support in the OS, only modern browsers can be supported. It
is known that in such setup quite many small applications will break, such as
a number of different virus update agents using HTTP to fetch new virus
definitions and other similar things.

Regards
Henrik Nordström

On Wednesday 12 December 2001 13.40, Mark Tinka wrote:
> just of curiosity, Squid for Windows may not be able
> to support GRE tunnelling, but, can't it, with a Cisco
> router, do transparent caching with policy route maps
> on a Cisco router..?.. just a thought..

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