Re: Forcing traffic to port 80 to go to squid server (fwd)
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
28 Jul 1997 21:06:35 +0200
In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970728112741.11056B-100000@vortex.netbistro.com>,
M Lyons <lyonsm@netbistro.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, MegaZone wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time Evan Champion shaped the electrons to say...
>
>> >I want to force all traffic going from users on my PM3 to port 80 on the
>> >net to be redirected to my squid cache server.
>
>> You can block access to the net on port 80 and only permit access to port
>> 80 on your cache.
>
>> But there is no way for you to redirect the traffic. All you can do is
>> block other access and tell the users to reconfigure their browsers.
>
>Paul Vixie recently mentioned that he was working on a "transparent,
>active, caching web proxy" for a European customer that basically did what
>you describe, without the customers having to change any settings.
You mean, that feature that's part of a standard Squid webproxy? Ah :)
http://squid.nlanr.net/, read the FAQ (the part that talks about
transparent proxying).
Mike.
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