Re: [squid-users] WCCP, Squid, and that darn PIX

Oh, I thought his proxy was on the inside of the firewall...

And I thought he mentioned that the outgoing requests were "spoofed"
with the client's IP, but now looking back over the post, I see that the
explanation does put the proxy outside the firewall...

I stand corrected.

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Joe Cooper wrote:
>
>>This is a problem with spoofing. Squid does not do IP spoofing, all
>>return traffic (whether in a transparent configuration or not) comes
>>back to the Squid IP.
>>
>
> Err.. when you do transparent proxying Squid (or actually the host where
> Squid runs) spoofs the origin server address for that TCP session..
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid Hacker

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Received on Thu Jun 14 2001 - 14:14:10 MDT