On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 02:51:55PM +0100, Martin Feeney mentioned:
> > Mornin' all,
> > Right. We have a linux router whihc takes care of our internet
> > access. What we want to do is prevent people from accessing the web
> > directly, rather redirect all http/ftp packets to the squid proxy server,
> > which is another linux box. Is there anyway to do this? It looks like it
> > invloves sniffing the packets or something. Not essential, but would be
> > nice if it was possible.
> I've been trying to do the same with an ipchains REDIRECT rule but it
> seems to be having no effect so far. I'll let you know if I get anywhere
> with it.
I was playing with this on friday. You need to download "ipmasqadm",
which is a nice frontend to some of the ip masquerading things. It has an
"portfw" module, and you can do stuff like:
# ipmasqadm portfw -L localip localport -R remoteip remoteport
Kate
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