Re: [squid-users] Squid transparent proxy and bridge question

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:54:00 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Matthew Tanase wrote:

> I have setup Mandrake Linux 10.0 as a bridge. I have confirmed the
> interfaces (eth0 and eth1) are acting as a bridge. I have installed
> Squid on this device and would like it to act as a forced, transparent
> proxy. So I am redirecting requests coming into the bridge to port 3128,
> which squid is running on. I have followed the instructions from the
> Mini-How to (Linux + Squid + Transparent Proxy) and included both
> iptables commands (the PREROUTING with REDIRECT to 3128), but Squid does
> not seem to process the requests. No entries in the access.out file. I
> have found one message on the list with a similar problem last year, but
> it was not resolved.

Is your kernel compiled with support for bridge firewalling? Won't work
without as the bridged packets does not reach iptables unless bridge
firewalling is enabled in the kernel..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Mar 23 2004 - 14:54:03 MST

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