Re: [squid-users] transparent proxying

From: Giedrius <viridis@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:10:56 +0300

Russ Uhte wrote:

> Giedrius wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there any way to detect transparent squid-proxy running?
>> I want to share my internet connection, so that administrator
>> couldn't detect this. I decided to use transparent proxying in squid.
>> Will this work for me?
>
>
> Nothing's impossible to detect. It really depends on how much access
> your administrator has to your network. Also, some one good at
> analyzing packets could probably sniff the web traffic and figure out
> pretty quickly what was going on.
>
> Basically, if you're not allowed to do it, you really shouldn't be
> doing it!!
>
> -Russ
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>
>
So is it easy to detect the packets coming from squid or all proxies are
easy detectable?
I used tinyproxy, some weaks ago and administrator didn't see that. But
tinyproxy isn't very
functional, so I need squid.

Giedrius
Received on Fri Oct 29 2004 - 08:10:26 MDT

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