[H-GEN] fowarding port 80

Robert Kearey mammal at optushome.com.au
Mon Mar 18 21:47:00 EST 2002


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Joel Michael wrote:

>>That's assuming your squid proxy and routing firewall are the same 
>>machine, of course.

> It also assumes you WANT squid.  You don't need squid, or any other kind
> of proxy, when using ipmasqadm or the iptables command that David just
> posted.

Yeah - but what's the point of redirecting port 80 in such a manner, if 
not to use a transparent caching proxy?

Riddle me that!
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