Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:18:18 -0800 From: Jeff Koftinoff <jeffkoftinoff@mac.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-ipfw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Transparent proxy for connections originating on localhost Message-ID: <C902FE50-3000-11D6-A2D9-003065709198@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20020304221203.Q87533@blossom.cjclark.org>
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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
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