On Tuesday 08 May 2001 13:23, Kingsly John wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Simanta J Handique wrote:
> |internet using the proxy server. Can I run a proxy server from my Linux
> | box which in turn will forward all http requests to my machine to the
> | proxy server? What proxy server do i use and how do i configure it.
>
> You can use forwarding to achieve this affect... if the machines set ur
> box to be the gateway.. you can set up ip forwarding/masquerading such a
> way that all packets to port 80 on ur machine are sent to proxyserver:8080
> or whatever. this solution definitely works.
I guess you might to use the packet-diverter in the new 2.4 kernels. The
ipchains redirect only works for the local machine. You might to do some
rewriting of packets as they go out. Don't know though...
> I'm not sure what would happen if you made this kind of setup... get
> traffic meant for port 80 to goto port 8080 on the remote/gateway
> machine... and then run a proxy server on your machine.. squid comes with
> redhat... and then others will be able to get to ur machine and get out to
> the net.
Maybe you can configure squid to use the M$ proxy it's parent cache. Might
work..
-Faisal.
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