Re: [squid-users] Sending requests with Client's IP address rather than Squid IP address

It is not as much a Squid issue as an issue for the OS ontop where
Squid runs.

For this to be at all possible the OS where you run Squid must support
that applications like Squid initiate TCP/IP connections with faked
source addresses.

And one thing is sure, if these same IP addresses is also routed to
the clients then great care must be used or else really bad things
could happen at the TCP/IP level. Only recommended in a network where
clients are always proxied no matter which service they attempt to
contact.

Regards
Henrik

On Thursday 12 December 2002 20.09, Mitesh P Choksi wrote:
> I have been going through the lists and archives and lots of other
> documents on the net on using Squid and sending out the requests
> that come out if Squid with Client's IP. This means that when the
> packet is travelling on the web it is having the source IP as
> client's IP rathar then the squid's IP address. All docs point that
> this is an almost impossible task.
Received on Thu Dec 12 2002 - 13:42:34 MST