Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:11:57 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: Jeff Koftinoff <jeffkoftinoff@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Message-ID: <20020304231157.T87533@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <C902FE50-3000-11D6-A2D9-003065709198@mac.com>; from jeffkoftinoff@mac.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:18:18PM -0800 References: <20020304221203.Q87533@blossom.cjclark.org> <C902FE50-3000-11D6-A2D9-003065709198@mac.com>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:18:18PM -0800, Jeff Koftinoff wrote:
>
> 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.
Hmmm... Wouldn't happen to have a,
pass ip from any to any via lo0
At the top of your rules?
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