Re: Transparent Proxying and IP Forwarding

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Third, it requires redirection of incoming network traffic much in the
> same way as client traffic is redirected to Squid in an transparent
> proxy setup. Only difference is that redirection is done based on the
> source port of incoming traffic this time.

Correction: All incoming TCP and ICMP traffic must be redirected to the
proxy server unless a very clever TCP level router is used which
bidirectionally routes TCP connections and not IP packets (never heard
of such a beast but it could exist, very doubtful hovewer).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker