On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:58, Kerry Mayes wrote:
I have a home network of windoze and linux machines with an IPCop firewall and Mandrake 9.2 acting as server and proxy server. I want to force all connections to the internet to go through the proxy server.
Do you mean, "all web browsing requests" to go through the "web proxy" on your server?
If you do, then you will have to configure each browser (i.e., mozilla, etc. [is there a browser called "etc"?]) to send requests to the proxy,
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Close.
:)
by specifying its IP address (and port number, which is probably 3128)
On the other hand, I expect that IPCop can be set up to be a "transparent proxy" which will automatically intercept all normal web requests. Go looking for that option :-) In this case, you won't have to do anything to the other machines - assuming that they are already using your IPCop server as their router, to get to the Internet.
He's probably installed squid on the `drake box. He'll need to configure IPCop so that outward TCP requests on port 80 are only available from the server, blocking the rest of the LAN. This way
the rest of the machines are forced to use the proxy.
Cheers, Rex
