Re: [squid-users] Transparent Proxy Trouble

Folks -

I wound up taking the easy way out and loaded up the DL140 with a copy of e-
smith 6.0. A couple of downloads later from http://www.trasksinc.com/esmith/
and I have a fully-functioning transparent proxy firewall.

Thanks -

Mark

Quoting Jim_Brouse/PYT@PASCUAYAQUITRIBE.ORG:

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> Can you browse the Internet from the squid server itself?
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> Is it possibly a firewall rule rejecting the traffic from the wireless
> clients?
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> Is it possibly a routing rule sending Internet traffic out the wrong
> interface?
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> ping www.google.com for example then do "ip route get
> IPaddressofgoogle.com" and see which interface it it trying to go out of,
> try this with several different internet sites.
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> Jim
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> mark@ehle.home
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> linux.org To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
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> 02/17/2004 Subject: [squid-users]
> Transparent Proxy Trouble
> 12:21 PM
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> Hello, Folks -
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> I have been using squid/squidGuard on our proxy servers here at the library
> I
> work at for about a year and a half, and have been having great success
> with
> them.
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> I am now trying to set up a transparent proxy for a new wireless network so
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> that we can let folks bring in there laptops and hook up, but have the
> content
> content filtered (Unfortunately, that is our policy).
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> I am using a brand new HP Proliant DL140, with a fresh box-stock install of
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> redhat 9.0. The server has 2 ethernet interfaces, eth0 is outside, eth1 is
> the
> wireless.
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> I have tried to set up the machine as described in this article:
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> http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/TransparentProxy.html
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> I am able to set up squid no sweat, and when I point a wireless client
> browser
> to port 3128 on the server, squid says that it is fetching pages. When I
> "un-
> point" my browser, I am still able to browse, but squid's access log is
> silent.
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> Does anybody have any clues as to where I need to look? Is the above URL a
> valid way to do this?
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> Thanks -
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> Mark Ehle
> Computer Support Librarian
> Willard Public Library
> Battle Creek, MI
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Received on Wed Feb 18 2004 - 13:40:11 MST