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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 21:40:54 +0200
From:      Willem Brown <willem@brwn.org>
To:        Hank Wethington <bsd@info-logix.com>
Cc:        BSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Transproxy not working?
Message-ID:  <393024C6.A1D707FA@brwn.org>
References:  <KFEIIDCJNHBCGLAFNMJIEEEDCDAA.bsd@info-logix.com>

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Hi,

	Someone else asked a question about transparent proxying. And they
were pointed to this. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html
This
might give you some idea on how to set it up.

Hank Wethington wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I've been working with transproxy over the last couple of days and having a
> little trouble with it and was hoping you could point me in the right
> direction, as I have found very little written information about transproxy.
> 
> First I suppose I should give you my config:
> FreeBSD 3.4, running natd and IPFW over DSL. Routing for 3 internal machine
> running win9x/2k.
> This machine is also running as a mail server (qmail), FTP (NCFtp), and
> small web server (apache)
> 
> A friend of mine runs a proxy server that blocks porn. If I put it in each

What proxy software is he using. Maybe it isn't set up to handle
transparent
proxying? 

> browser it works fine, but alas, too easy to get around. I had been looking
> for a solution when a BSD friend of mine suggested transproxy. I installed
> the latest build from the transproxy web site. I am running tproxy as a
> standalone server. I have verified it is running (top) and verified it is
> using port 81 (by trying to run it again with similar settings). Here is the
> command that is running from rc.conf
> 
> tproxy -s 81 -r nobody proxy.iolwest.com 80
> 
> The port for iolwest's proxy is 80 (verified through running the proxy
> settings on Netscape).
> 
> I've also added the following IPFW rules
> 
> 00900 allow tcp from 192.168.1.0/24 to any 80
> 00910 fwd proxy.iolwest.com,81 tcp from any to any 80
> 
> Now I can still browse and do all other internet related tasks, but alas, I
> still have access to porn, sites I know are blocked because they were
> blocked when I ran the proxy in Netscape. I did a tcpdump, and it appears
> that the packets are not being forwarded to tproxy.
> 
> Have you seen this before? Did I screw up the configuration some how? Do I
> understand the use of transproxy, that it should allow me to do this?
> 
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hank Wethington
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Regards
Willem Brown

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