Thanks a lot for your info !
The information in the manual (for sme 6.x) should indirectely indicate that there should be no tranparent proxy function, as a transparent proxy function should make it unneccessary to configure the browser for the proxy.
On the other hand it was my impression that the sme 7.0 has a transparent proxy, and I wondered how to find it out for sure.
The sender ip of the packets leaving out the external interphace will be the same external ip, whether this is obtained using a nat mechanism or a proxy, so you can not tell the difference using a trafic monitor like iptraf (or a trafic monitor like ethereal) (??!!)
Well, if I run top while using the browser on the Windows client, I can see that the Squid demon is popping up and using som eprocessor resources.
It looks like that it is correct that the sme 7.0 use a transparant web proxy and that you can turn it on or of fram the server-manager panel. (Selecting or deselecting from the client side will not work.)
Anybody who nows a bether or more accurate method than "the top method" to indicate if the packets are passing the Squid deamon or not ?! (I think the answer in this case is clear, but it would still be good to have bether methods for stating or exploring the internal server datatransports. To observe that the Squid deamon is pulling some resources is only a indirect and possible and possible not so precice indicator.)
Best reg Arne.
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