Dear Squid people, I was using a Windows proxy server for connecting Our LAN users to the Internet. So once the ftp-client program in the users computers was configured with the Windows Proxy IP address and another port other than 21(which is specified as FTP proxy port in the Windows Proxy Server) in the ftp-proxies section,users could connect to ftp sites on the internet by just typing the site URL in the ftp-client. The ftp-client most of us use is FileZilla.
I Plan to swithch over to OpenBSD 3.5 Proxy and Firewall machine. So now I have OpenBSD 3.5 installed on a computer with Squid Proxy Installed on it. I also managed to get Squid configured and the LAN users can access the Websites on the Internet through it. There is no problem with http access and it is much faster I think. I am a bit confused about configuring the ftp proxy part of it. I got a bit confused from the documentation about transparent proxying and all. Could You please tell me what are the parameters I should change in the squid.conf and what values I should give them so that the users in the LAN can access the FTP sites as earlier? Is it possible to restrict users and specify which users can access which sites? Note: The Squid Proxy is installed on an OpenBSD 3.5 computer with 2 NICs. One NIC has an Internet static IP address and is connected to an ADSL router. The other NIC has an Internal IP Address and is connected to the LAN switch. Could you also please refer me to some resource on the internet which explains what "transparent proxying" is and what "passive mode" and "active mode" is. If I enable "packet filtering" in OpenBSD are there specific issues that I should be careful about while using "Squid Proxy"? Thanks for this Proxy Software God Bless you Siju
