Topic: external proxy

[Peter Ashby]

Help! - what a good way to start.

I administer a mid sized education institution which runs all Windows software (2000 server - 98/NT workstations).
Added to this setup until 2 weeks ago was one Linux box acting as our proxy server - it ran for 6 months without a hitch and then died.
I liked it so much when it was running I decided to try e-smith as our new proxy server but..

I can't get it to talk to the outside world - I can see it on the network and can administer it but it fails its Internet connection test and so can't act as a proxy/server.

The IP connection is full time ISDN but the traffic MUST pass through an external proxy - proxy.vhhs.sa.edu.au with a port of 2138 and it won't!

Can anyone help a complete novice in Linux?

Thanks Peter

[Fran Boon]

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/configmisc.html

"External proxy server: The next screen allows you to configure your e-smith server and gateway so that the computers on your network will use a proxy server outside of your own network . Some Internet Service Providers may require this. Additionally, if your e-smith server is behind another firewall, it may need to use the external proxy server"

[zac]

Peter Ashby wrote:

> I can't get it to talk to the outside world - I can see it on
> the network and can administer it but it fails its Internet
> connection test and so can't act as a proxy/server.
>
> The IP connection is full time ISDN but the traffic MUST pass
> through an external proxy - proxy.vhhs.sa.edu.au with a port
> of 2138 and it won't!

assuming e-smith didn't set it up properly (it didn't when i set it up), you'll have to directly modify the squid config file (remembering to modify the template and signal-event console-save'ing!) ... you need the bit about cache_peer; it's fairly self explanatory in the conf file, but for completeness, heres what you _probably_ need to put in:

cache_peer proxy.vhhs.sa.edu.au parent 2138 3120 default no-query

although i would recommend reading up on the docs @ www.squid-cache.org .. also, talk to the sysadmins for your provider, they can probably help you out too.

zac

[Peter Ashby]

Thanks Zac

That did the trick although editing the Squid.conf file was a bit of a trial for a novice in Linux - oh well its all part of the learning curve!