Re: Transparent Proxy

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> Dancer wrote:
>
> > No, linux doesn't require it. But HTTP does, because a proxy-aware
> > request and a non-proxy-aware request follow two different syntaxes.

> You only need a additional daemon if you want to run Squid on a separate
> machine as ipfwadm can only redirect to a local port.

(which was my assumption, since people's gateway boxes are usually
distinct from their proxy servers except in the case of corporate
firewalling, where transparent proxying is not usually an issue)

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