Thanx for the info mahesh, well i have coupla things more to clear up,

[1] do i have to enable ip_forwaring in /proc [2] what should be in the dns of the win98 client.

thanx in advance cheers~ </shahazad>

The iptables rule for transparent proxy is

#/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE

in the above rule 192.168.0.0 is the local network and 255.255.255.0 is subnet.

-o eth1 option specifies the external interface which connects your proxy server/gateway to the internet.for me it is eth1.for you it might be ppp0 if you are using dialup.

Enable routing on the Server.

Add the IP of your proxy server as gateway in the network properties of the Windows machine.That's it.

reply back if have any relative problem.

Mahesh Gharat mahesh_gharat@rediffmail.com

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 shahazad@linuxplanet.nu wrote :

hi buddies, i need help for setting up a transparent proxy...i want to use iptables. can u please send me the rules, and also the setting that are to be made on the linux box and on the windows client. i cant get yahoo chat to work on it as well.

Also do send me some links/urls about the same ..

thanx cheers~

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