2007/11/29, Jean Christophe Andr? <jean-christophe.andre at auf.org>: > Vu The Binh a ?crit : > > I'm not an expert of squid and linux, but as discussed this afternoon, > > iptables could do most of the required things. It is very flexible, and > > could be even strong when using conjunction with squid. > > > I know iptables pretty well, having used it to make "hand-made" > firewalls everywhere, but really here I can't see an iptables-only > solution. This is because we are talking about public access to remote > public website. It's not just about the far most easier usual case of > private access to remote public website. So here we need some kind of > authentication and iptables basically can't do this.
iptables ( a firewall ) and squid ( a proxy server ) are different things. I thought Binh was talking about a combination of squid + iptables that make a transparent proxy ( i.e invisible by user ) http://tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy.html -- Best Regards, Nguyen Hung Vu vuhung16plus{[email protected] An inquisitive look at Harajuku http://www.flickr.com/photos/vuhung/sets/72157600109218238/
