From owner-freebsd-ipfw Mon Mar 4 22:18:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [204.179.120.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE1037B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay02.mac.com (server-source-si02 [10.13.10.6]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.1/8.10.2/1.0) with ESMTP id g256IKFD013882 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from asmtp02.mac.com ([10.13.10.66]) by smtp-relay02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 relay02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GSHLIK00.IIB for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:20 -0800 Received: from osx.jdk ([24.83.206.181]) by asmtp02.mac.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 asmtp02 Jun 21 2001 23:53:48) with ESMTP id GSHLIJ00.E4O; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:19 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:18 -0800 Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu From: Jeff Koftinoff In-Reply-To: <20020304221203.Q87533@blossom.cjclark.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 10:12 PM, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:50:37PM -0800, Jeff Koftinoff wrote: >> >> >> Thank you very much for your reply. So is 'fwd'' the right way to go >> for transparent proxying with the web browser and the proxy on the same >> machine? > > I'm not sure why one would want to proxy connections to a webserver on > the same machine. > Content filtering for all http connections regardless of which browser is installed. >> With the same rule that I previously specified, when I try to >> access a remote web site, the 'fwd' rule blocks my connection and does >> not forward to 127.0.0.1:9999. The browser (links) just hangs on >> 'Making >> connection'. and 'ipfw show' shows the counter increase. > > Hmmm... I thought you said it was working. I'm not clear on what is > and is not working. When I originate the connection on an external computer, the fwd works. When I originate the connection on the same computer that has the fwd rule, the fwd rule causes the connect to hang. Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ipfw" in the body of the message