On 2/10/2015 8:15 a.m., Jake wrote: > I have a Squid/Dansguardian proxy server that successfully works when > the client web browser is manually configured to use the proxy address:port. > > What I want to do is configure a transparent proxy server, presuming I > wouldn't have to manually configure browsers.
"transparent proxy" is not what you think. The best choice is to use WPAD/PAC auto-configuration. That gets you all the benefts of manual configuration without the troubles of either manual or interception. > > My LAN environment diagram: > http://imgur.com/0MybmwE > > This is a home network environment with a cable modem, wifi router, > client web browsers, and I have added the proxy server as a virtualized > VMware server. > > For the proxy server I have two virtual network cards on the same subnet: > eth0 192.168.1.14 (gateway and the proxy address) > eth1 192.168.1.15 > > Is it possible the proxy server can intercept traffic from the clients, > when the clients have direct access to the internet router? I don't > understand how traffic is "intercepted" in this diagram. The router needs to route the packets to/through the proxy server. > > Do I need to change something on the router? Yes. > > How do I configure for proxy transparency? > You didn't say waht yoru router software was... > I've read some configurations, but they were confusing, or out of date, > or specialized without much explanation. The explanation for that is each router software being different. Config for one routing application will not work for others. Amos _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
