Folks - I wound up taking the easy way out and loaded up the DL140 with a copy of e- smith 6.0. A couple of downloads later from http://www.trasksinc.com/esmith/ and I have a fully-functioning transparent proxy firewall.
Thanks - Mark Quoting Jim_Brouse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Can you browse the Internet from the squid server itself? > > Is it possibly a firewall rule rejecting the traffic from the wireless > clients? > > Is it possibly a routing rule sending Internet traffic out the wrong > interface? > > ping www.google.com for example then do "ip route get > IPaddressofgoogle.com" and see which interface it it trying to go out of, > try this with several different internet sites. > > > > Jim > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > linux.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cc: > > 02/17/2004 Subject: [squid-users] > Transparent Proxy Trouble > 12:21 PM > > > > > > > > > > Hello, Folks - > > I have been using squid/squidGuard on our proxy servers here at the library > I > work at for about a year and a half, and have been having great success > with > them. > > I am now trying to set up a transparent proxy for a new wireless network so > > that we can let folks bring in there laptops and hook up, but have the > content > content filtered (Unfortunately, that is our policy). > > I am using a brand new HP Proliant DL140, with a fresh box-stock install of > > redhat 9.0. The server has 2 ethernet interfaces, eth0 is outside, eth1 is > the > wireless. > > I have tried to set up the machine as described in this article: > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/TransparentProxy.html > > I am able to set up squid no sweat, and when I point a wireless client > browser > to port 3128 on the server, squid says that it is fetching pages. When I > "un- > point" my browser, I am still able to browse, but squid's access log is > silent. > > Does anybody have any clues as to where I need to look? Is the above URL a > valid way to do this? > > Thanks - > > Mark Ehle > Computer Support Librarian > Willard Public Library > Battle Creek, MI > > > > >
