Alex Choo wrote:
Hi!
i was trying to setting up a Interception Caching or Transparent
Caching with squid. i'm puzzled that we needs to redirect the traffic
to Squid listening port from port 80.
i've tried to configured Squid to listen on port 80 and the relevant
config for transparent caching. But when i set my workstation default
route to my Squid box, it'll failed. It's ok if i explicitly set the
proxy in the browser.
my question is, do we really need to some sort of traffic/port
redirection for interception/transparent to work? i'm using Squid v
2.6
Yes. traffic passing through a router is handled differently at the
firewall/kernel level than traffic stopping at that same router.
Squid is a local app, but the traffic is only passing through. The
interception bit is what changes the traffic from passing-thru to
stopping-at.
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Intercept/
has all the gory config details for squid and some OS.
Maybe this diagram will help understand what packets do in a system...
http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/PacketFlow.png
Amos
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Please be using
Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE5 or 3.0.STABLE10
Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.3 or 3.0.STABLE11-RC1
