Topic: Transparent Proxy

[James Heathcote]

Hi,

Could somebody please tell me what a Transparent Proxy is?? I've seen a few things about a transparent squid proxy, but I was wondering what is actually was.

Does this mean that you don't have to configure client web browsers with a proxy??


Please help!

James.

[Des Dougan]

That's exactly what it means.

Des Dougan

[Patrick B]

Des,

I am running e-smith-transproxy...and it's great.

Does transproxy force ALL traffic (like ftp,aol im,streaming media, etc) to flow through the e-smith/SME "proxy" portion of the server, or only web traffic?

I want to be able to monitor and catch ALL outbound/inbound traffic as it passes through my server, and I have several users that are technical....so I want to make sure they are not "going around" my gate (transproxy).

Thanks,
Patrick

[James Heathcote]

Do transparent proxies even work if you are using internal reserved IP addresses??

eg) 192.168.0.1

Kind regards,
James.

[Rick]

How do you set this up ???

Richard

[Anthony]

Just install the RPM from:

http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-e-smith-transproxy-0.3-1.src.html

Then reboot to make it go!   There is probably a smart way to avoid rebooting
but I don't know what it is   #:-(

Then surf the net from a client (no proxy settings needed on the client)
and check its working by doing a:

tailf /var/log/squid/access.log