Re: [squid-users] Ident lookups and transparent proxy

ident lookups won't work with transparent proxies, not unless your TCP/IP
interception method has support for ident.... to my knowledge none of the
TCP/IP interception methods in use supports ident..

Regards
Henrik

Paul McCormack wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using squid as a transparent proxy and accelerator. After reading all
> the FAQ's etc I still cannot get ident lookups to work for squid. I wanted
> to use squidguard which I have working for blacklists etc.
>
> I am using Suse 7.3 and Squid 2.3 stable 2(from memory) but as I
> understand it that should work. I have the firewall setup to redirect to
> 3128.
>
> My question is will ident lookups work with a transparent proxy and if not
> what is the recommended way of implementing auth to work with squidguard.
>
> Paul

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