Fabio Correa wrote:
> This works if the squid and shorewall are in the same machine, i not sure if
> is that case.

We basically don't have enough information here --

a) If Stacker's users are accessing the internet directly now, how does
adding the rule disrupt them if, as claimed, the rule does nothing?

b) As Fabio says, we're assuming that Squid is running on the Shorewall
box. But even if it isn't, that wouldn't cause the users to "try to go
directly to the por (SIC) 80 using  the default gateway". So I suspect
that the rule is working and Squid is not.

Because:

- In 90% of cases where transparent proxy doesn't work, it is the Squid
configuration that is wrong, not Shorewall.
- In 9% of the cases, the user forgot to enable port 80 from fw->net
even though that is carefully documented at
http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html
- In the other 1%, the user is astonished to learn that HTTPS cannot be
transparently proxied.

-Tom
--
Tom Eastep        \ The ultimate result of shielding men from the
Shoreline,         \ effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Washington, USA     \                                 -Herbert Spencer
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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