hi, i've searched the archives and seen that there's been a bit of discussion of at least freebsd and transparent proxying.
i too am endeavouring to set this up. i've checked out the following section in the squid faq. http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-17.html#ss17.8 my queries arise as i want to know what the state of play is at June 2003. the faq kind of indicates it's old! "of this writing (July 1999.)" my first question relates to the --enable-ipf-transparent do I need it on freebsd 5.0?? if I try and compile it with this setting i get the following configure output. checking if IP-Filter header files are installed... no WARNING: Cannot find necessary IP-Filter header files Transparent Proxy support WILL NOT be enabled However my kernel is compiled with firewall support. Output from dmesg: "ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging unlimited" Anyway, this is probably a good starting point for my hassles and could be the answer to why nothing I've tried has worked as yet!! ;) I'm also running a setup where I have a freebsd firewall which will fwd the packets to the freebsd squid server. Most of the stuff i've read involves the firewall and squid running on the same box, or a cisco router forwarding the packets.. I've raised many of the queries on freebsd-questions however had limited responses. Looking forward to getting to the bottom of this. Regards, ajt.