RE: Transparent Proxy

> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >
> > Dancer wrote:
> >
> > > No, linux doesn't require it. But HTTP does, because a proxy-aware
> > > request and a non-proxy-aware request follow two different syntaxes.
>
> > You only need a additional daemon if you want to run Squid on a separate
> > machine as ipfwadm can only redirect to a local port.
>
> (which was my assumption, since people's gateway boxes are usually
> distinct from their proxy servers except in the case of corporate
> firewalling, where transparent proxying is not usually an issue)

Ahh, I was assuming that everyone used the Cisco route redirect to the Linux
box to proxy all HTTP requests instead of tproxyd.

Jordan

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