[squid-users] Re: transparent proxy on remote box issue

>
> I can say for sure this is the issue. First of all I can make this work
with
> two Ubuntu VMs under the same LAN which allowed me to compare the
difference.
>
> Eliezer's observation is correct. On my VMs traffic goes through the
gateway
> (ie: the router) before going to the remote box. On Amazon VPC for some
> reason it tries to go directly to the remote box since the mac address is
> that of SQUID box (not that of the gateway).
>
> If I use clean.rules traffic goes through the gateway.
> If I use proxy.rules (with policy based routing) it will use SQUID's mac.
>
> I don't know how to fix this issue.
>
> Thanks, that's a big step forward
>
>

I finally found what's causing the packet drop. I needed to disable
Source/Dest Check on VPC instance for SQUID (right-click client VPC
instance: "Change Source/Dest. Check")! I did disable for VPN instance.

I will continue the other steps and will report back. I think it will work
now.

Thanks,
Received on Sun Nov 03 2013 - 08:25:55 MST