Henrick,

Thanks a million -- 

Charles Shick

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 14:57, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Monday 14 July 2003 11.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > I think that I will try the kernel patch as we have are short on
> > addresses and I think that it would better suit our needs.
> > Bizarrily, I couldn't find a url to download the patch -- can you
> > suggest one?
> 
> The TPROXY patch is part of Netfilter Patch-O-Matic last time I 
> looked. I think there is a homepage somewhere also..
> 
> Note that you also need to patch Squid to use this feature.
> 
> 
> Note: In the NAT approach you do not need to use real addresses. 
> Virtual private addresses works just fine. These addresses are just 
> used between Squid and the NAT engine. To reproduce the exact same 
> effect as TPROXY you configure Squid like this:
> 
>   1. Create a set of virtual private addresses on the Squid server, as 
> many as you have clients.
> 
>   2. Set up squid.conf tcp_outgoing_address to assign proper private 
> address for each client.
> 
>   3. Use iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -j SNAT ... to NAT the private 
> addresses back to the clients real addresses.
> 
> 
> This approach, just as TPROXY, requires the Squid server to be the 
> router/gateway of all your Internet traffic. Using the clients 
> address as source address will never work if the return traffic for 
> these addresses is not routed via the same point in the network.
> 
> Regards
> Henrik
> 
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