Marco Walther wrote:
> On Monday 10 December 2007 10:54, Peter Memishian wrote:
>   
>>  > Squid is actually including <netinet/ip_compat.h>. Sorry that I did not
>>  > include that before.
>>
>> Wow, that header is frightening.  What does it actually use from there?
>>     
>
> I'm not a squid expert, I just try to use it;-) But from the source file 
> where 
> I ran into the problem first (src/client_side.c) , it looks like it wants to 
> work with ipfilter and acl's.
>   

I imagine it will be for transparent proxy support.
i.e. on your gateway box, you would have:

rdr bge0 0/0 port 80 -> 192.168.1.1 port 3128 tcp

and then nobody gets direct access to the WWW (on port 80),
everything goes via squid, without changing any of the proxy
settings for web browsers.

Darren

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