On Friday 17 May 2002 7:47 am, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Hello,
>
> some time ago I had setup transparent http proxy with squid and netfilter
> redirection. Although the DNAT/redirection to the squid machine kills the
> destination address, squid reads the destination out of the host header of
> the http get request.
>
> Unfortunately there is no such information within the FTP protocol. Is
> there another way to achieve this with netfilter? I assume an ftp proxy
> would have to become netfilter aware and somehow ask netfilter about the
> original destination address. Maybe an ftp proxy would even have to patch
> the kernel.
>
> Does something like that exist? Does this something also allow to check
> incoming files for viruses (That is what I really need the transparent
> proxy for)?

I have heard (on this list) of something called frox which is supposed to be 
able to be a transparent ftp proxy.   I've never played with it though - I 
just remember it being mentioned.

Hope it helps ?



Antony.

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