Re: [squid-users] Squid and Mirrored Router Ports

What options did you configure your squid with, as I had a similar issue
on FreeBSd and transparent proxy, and did not configure
--enable-ipf-transparent

cheers

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 20:55 +1000, Edward C. Jakosalem wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have posted this same problem before but I want to post it again because
> I am pressured to make this work with Squid. I know that Squid's use is
> either an accelerator or proxy or both. But we want Squid to _only_
> capture web traffic and log them, that's all. As such, I have configured
> my server to act as transparent proxy.
>
> My server is running Fedora 5 with Squid 2.6 (just downloaded and
> installed the latest version today). I also have 2 ethernet cards on this
> server:
> eth0 - public IP
> eth2 - private IP and is directly connected to a router's _mirrored_
> port. I can confirm that there is traffic originating from this
> interface.
>
> My squid.conf contains the following line which makes it a transparent proxy:
> http_port 3128 transparent
>
> Also according to the docs, I added the following line to my iptables:
> -A PREROUTING -i eth2 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 3128
>
> With this setup, my server should be up and capturing data from eth2. But
> I still don't see any traffic being logged by Squid. I have configured my
> browser to use this proxy server to check if it works and it does.
>
> So what else do I need to do.
>
> TIA,
> Edward
>
>
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Received on Tue Apr 17 2007 - 05:03:16 MDT