> Yes, I know, I have found a few mailing list archives about transparent
> proxying that say that it is inoperational in 2.1, but apparently nobody
> bothers? The mails indicated that it's broken for over a _year_ now and
> it still does not work. Can this be? Does nobody use transparent
> proxying?
>
> Or am I doing something wrong? When I telnet to the redirected port,
> it hangs in the connecting phase and the server does not send anything
> back.
>
> Felix
>
No no. Transparent proxy works well in 2.1.8x. I used to use a home-brew
program to put the required entry into the ARP cache. It is no longer
necessary.
Just turn it on with `echo "1" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_proxy_arp`.
You must have defined CONFIG_SYSCTL=y and CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
when compiling the kernel.
I dial in nearly every evening from my home, set up a PPP link, and
route my home network through the PPP connection to my work network
and on to the Internet via our Cisco. Everything works fine except
for some occasional TCP stalls (5 to 30 second data-flow interruptions).
The stalls have been a problem for the past two years, but everything else
works fine. I have learned to live with the stalls. Someday, someone will
find the reason for them, but don't hold your breath!
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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