Squid acct as a Gateway

manwerjalil · Post by **manwerjalil** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:08 pm

Dear all,

I am using squid on redhat linux 5 and now my organization asked to me stop configuring proxy option in internet explorer and provide internet access using gateway as we are using squid IP address as an gateway

anyone can help me how to do this?

Thanks

zmunawar · Post by **zmunawar** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:18 pm

As i understand, you may need to operate transparent proxy.In that case you just have to point ur computer GW towards squid, and there is no need to give IP Address of Proxy server in ur explorer. Is this wht u want ?

Which squid version are you using ?

manwerjalil · Post by **manwerjalil** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:26 am

I am using Redhat linux entp 5 and squid-2.6.STABLE6-3.el5

I just configured squid like this

http_port 8080
acl our_network src 0/0
http_access allow our_network

i can access internet when i configure proxy option in internet explorer but can't access using gateway of squid IP on client machine

another problem is that i can't access IMAP SSL port 993 as i have mentioned in squid like

acl SSL_ports port 993
acl Safe_ports port 993

but its not working

my LAN is eth1 and INET is eth0

is there any good solution for this

Thanks

x2oxen · Post by **x2oxen** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:13 pm

configure it transparent and implement iptables rules which will be redirecting your port 80 traffic towards your squid port and enable natting.

this has been discussed in various posts before.

FYI http://usmanpk.com/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=41

manwerjalil · Post by **manwerjalil** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:01 pm

I resolved the issue dear.