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

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:32:08 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, usman fool wrote:

> keep 3 things in mind
>
> 1.the clients gateway must be that ip on which squid is listening on.( your
> bridge ip)

Not in case of a bridge (won't be a bridge then)... but the bridge needs
to be inbetween the clients and their gateway..

> 2.the clients must have access to a dns server which can can resolve any
> query.(which is not needed in manual proxy)

Correct.

> 3.ip forwarding is enabled and those 4 httpd_acceel options in squid.conf.

ip forwarding is not needed in bridge mode.. bridge forwarding is..

in addition the kernel needs to be compiled with birdge netfilter
integration, and the bridge firewalling module loaded.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 14:32:12 MST

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