> > 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"? > Basically , and not addressing all queries in this text : squid can not be used a native ftp proxy. Stated somehwat different -> Squid can only serve ftp content through http.
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