Re: Squid and ipfilter

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Anthony Ryan wrote:

> I'm using ipfilter 3.2.9 to do transparent cacheing with squid on
> solaris 2.6. The squid FAQ suggests the following rule in ipnat.rules
> should work:
>
> rdr hme0 0.0.0.0/0 port 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 8080 tcp
>
> but nothing happens. However, if I use the following in ipnat.rules it
> all works and squid receives the requests transparently (where
> 143.53.xx.xx ipaddress of the solaris server with ipfilter and
> ipfilter-enabled squid installed):
>
> rdr hme0 0.0.0.0/0 port 80 -> 143.53.xx.xx port 8080 tcp
>
> Because the second version works, I'm confident that the squid is
> configured OK but anyone know why the first version doesn't work ?

If you told squid to bind to a particular "tcp_incoming_address" then this
would be the case. The rule in the faq assumes that you are using the
default tcp_incoming_address of 0.0.0.0.

Seeya...Q

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Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 18:35:20 MST