[squid-users] Re: transparent proxy with transparent gateway (hrm)

This would work in my situation. I don't like the idea of changing the
IP address on my firewall but what's the difference ?

The bridge idea is cooler but MUCH more complicated.

Reischl, Brian wrote:

> Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding what you're trying to do here, but
> it seems to me you could set up a Linux box as a transparent
> proxy/router. Have it configured to proxy all port 80 and forward
> everything else to the gateway. Then move your gw to a IP new address,
> and have the proxy/fw take over the gateway's old IP address. Thus
> clients keep sending everything to the same IP thinking it's the
> gateway. Only now your proxy is sitting at that IP, proxying HTTP and
> silently forwarding everything else to the real gateway. All the
> ethernet level stuff should sort itself out after everyone's ARP cache
> expires in 5 or 10 minutes, and the clients should never know the
> difference. Or am I missing something here?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Davis [mailto:tdavis@birddog.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: transparent proxy with transparent gateway (hrm)
>
>
> This is a good one and perhaps I need to be slapped around a bit for
> even suggesting it.
>
> I want to set up transparent proxying. I do not want to change the
> default gw on my clients. Is there a way that I can set up an ethernet
> bridge that 'listens' for port 80 connections and mangles those packets
> so the destination address is the proxy server? I think I know the
> answer to this but it's worth a shot.
>
> --
> Terry Davis
> Systems Administrator
> BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
> (402) 829-6059
> www.birddog.com
>

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Terry Davis
Systems Administrator
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
(402) 829-6059
www.birddog.com