Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy w/ squid

Nevermind me, that's wrong.

Your configuration looks correct, so I'm not sure what's wrong (it's working
fine for me on my lan with ipfw)

--
wes
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wes Baehr" <iwes@totalmac.net>
To: "Jon hoffman" <hoffmanjon@comcast.net>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] transparent proxy w/ squid
> You have the httpd_accel_port set to 80 - it needs to be the port that the
> requests are being routed too. (3128)
>
> --
> wes
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon hoffman" <hoffmanjon@comcast.net>
> To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:35 PM
> Subject: [squid-users] transparent proxy w/ squid
>
>
> > Hello,
> > This is going to be a pretty long question (and the worse thing is I
have
> done
> > this before without this problem).
> > I am setting up (well trying too) a transparent proxy server using the
> squid
> > proxy server and iptables.  These are the steps I went through:
> > 1)  Downloaded the latest 2.5STABLE2 source for squid and compiled it
with
> the
> > --enabe-linux-netfilter option.
> > 2)  Changed the following lines in the squid.conf file:
> >         httpd_accel_host virtual
> >         httpd_accel_port 80
> >         httpd_accel_with_proxy on
> >         httpd_accel_uses_host_header on
> > 3) Put the following line in my firewall script to route all port 80
> traffic
> > coming from inside my network to port 3128 (squid's proxy port)
> >         iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $INT -p tcp --dport 80 -j
> REDIRECT
> > --to-port
> > 3128
> > 4)  Restarted my firewall and initalized squid and started squid.
> >
> > It works great when the proxy is set up in the web browser, but the
> problem is
> > I do not want to go around and set the web browser on every computer I
> want
> > it to be a "transparent proxy" where all www traffic is automaticly
> > redirected through the squid proxy server.
> >
> > The error I get in the web browser comes from the proxy server.  It is a
> > Invalid URL error and it says that it was having troublr retrieveing the
> URL
> > for /  (even through I put a correct address in the addres bar).
> >
> > Checking the squid logs, it does not show a URL but just the /.  Kind of
> like
> > the address it is tring to get to is not being redirected to the proxy
> > server.
> >
> > I do a TCPDUMP and it shows me connecting to the address that I put in
the
> > address bar (from the computer behind the proxy server).
> >
> > Any ideas on what I forgot to do (been banging my head into the wall all
> day
> > today and it is beginning to hurt :O(.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
>