Re: squid as relay, or plug-gw (fwd)

Hi everyone,

thanks for the last few emails about this subject.

I'm pretty much a layman on this subject so I'm still not sure if my
original question was answered... I need to use a transparent proxy/relay
for accessing a CGI application, where a browser connects to a local web
server, then that server transparently relays access to a CGI app which
resides in a remote location.

plug-gw was suggested but it may not be ideal since it runs off inetd.
Someone else mentioned tcpserver, and I'm confused as to whether tcpserver
would work for what I need.

Now I'm also hearing about masquerading...

I'm still confused. ;)

Can someone point me in the right direction?

thanks!!!
Ricardo

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Joe Abley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OK - I should know better to make assertions as to what Linux can and
> can't do in a public forum. About thirty people have mailed me with
> details of the payload translation available in Linux's IP masquerading
> (one such attached below, FYcollectiveI).
>
> I apologise for doubting Linux. You can stop mailing me now :)
>
>
> Joe "FreeBSD" Abley
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 14:54:07 +0200
> From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
> To: jabley@clear.co.nz
> Subject: Re: squid as relay, or plug-gw
> Newsgroups: lists.squid
>
> In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980531224555.8667A-100000@buddha.clear.net.nz> you write:
> >"IP masquerading" is a NAT facility built into the linux kernel. It does
> >no payload translation.
>
> One minor nitpick - it does do payload translation. It knows about
> the ftp, irc, real audio, cuseeme, vdolive, and quake protocols. For
> efficiency these are not all compiled in, but are compiled as modules
> which you have to load seperately.
>
> # ls /lib/modules/2.0.34/ipv4
> ip_alias.o ip_masq_irc.o ip_masq_vdolive.o
> ip_masq_cuseeme.o ip_masq_quake.o ipip.o
> ip_masq_ftp.o ip_masq_raudio.o rarp.o
>
> Mike.
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>
>
Received on Sun May 31 1998 - 16:36:05 MDT