if you want all external net traffic to go through the proxy, then set up the proxy address as the gateway on all the internal machines.
or am i missing something? On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:58:33+1300 Kerry Mayes<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > A (hopefully) easy question: > > 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. > > I thought that if I set hosts.allow on the firewall to only allow > connections from the server this would work. However, windoze > machines on the network are still going straight through to the > firewall. > > The question: is hosts.allow the right tool for this job? > > (If so then I'll go RTFM, otherwise which FM should I go R?) > > I'm new to this list but have been lurking for a week or so, so I hope > I've asked the question appropriately(!) . I'm finding conversion to > the linux world hard going, but intend persevering - I have a lot of > questions about which tools I should be using to achieve my desired > setup. > > cheers > Kerry Mayes > Chch. > > PS: if I have a reply-to thingy in the header, sorry - I'm using > O**look at work at the moment - I'm not sure how to change it. > >
