[4036] in linux-net channel archive
need insight on transparent proxy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu)
Fri Aug 16 04:30:42 1996
Date: 15 Aug 1996 22:26:58 -0000
From: rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
I've found it useful to put forwarding services on standard ports -- these
are tcp servers that just forward to some other machine while logging
the traffic.
I'm doing this enough that it's getting in the way of normal use of my
machine (e.g. I want peoplt to be able to telnet and ftp to my machine
even when it's rigged up to log/forward telnet and ftp traffic off to
another machine). It seems to me that ip transparent proxy ought to
do the trick for me -- I just put the forwarding services on otherwise
unused ports, and have ipfwadm take direct traffic to some othe ip
address to those ports.
Only thing is, it doesn't seem to be working for me. I've not spent a
lot of time trying out things (e.g. is -b important?). Is this what
I need to do? Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
--
Raul
