Squid question

Douglas J Hunley doug
Mon May 17 11:57:13 PDT 2004


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Tim Wunder wrote:
> While I'm googling for the answer to this question, I figgerd I'd also ask
> here.
> I've configured and installed squid with squidGuard and it workd, provided
> I configure my browser to use the proxy service at 192.168.1.2:3128. When
> the browser is configured (in this case, MozillaFirebird) to connect
> directly to the internet, the proxy is bypassed.
> How can I force the use of the proxy server, even if the browser isn't
> configured to use it? Would this be a firewall configuration?

what you're looking for is called 'transparent proxy'. and the easiest way ot 
mess w/ your firewall. note that squid will need as little tweaking to run in 
this mode
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