Strange Scenario, Sattelite Internet, Linux, Windows and Squid

Hi everyone,

I have an odd setup for which I am looking for advice.

I have got a DVB-Card for satellite internet that runs only on windows
lets call it doze1. I also have a linux machine(RedHat 9), let's call
it rh9 and several other windows machines(dozeN).

I am trying to have a setup where I am running squid on rh9 but my
gateway is doze1. Is it possible for dozeN to access internet using
squid when the rh9 is not the gateway? Currently I cannot even access
internet through rh9 using squid (on a dialup) but I can access it if I
disable the proxy.

How do I configure squid to work with the satellite proxy?

I want the users to be able to access other non-http apps to bypass
squid, does that happen by default or do I have to do something else?

I am looking for general pointers, hints, links etc... I can work from
there...

Thanks

Ali

I'd point all of your client machines to the doze1 box as their default
gateway. This will route all traffic via that.... Then, on all of the boxes
apart from doze1, set the rh9 box as the proxy server inside the web
browser. That way all of your web traffic is cached and proxied for dozeN,
and all other applications run direct via doze1


"ali" <ali.jan@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I have an odd setup for which I am looking for advice.
>
> I have got a DVB-Card for satellite internet that runs only on windows
> lets call it doze1. I also have a linux machine(RedHat 9), let's call
> it rh9 and several other windows machines(dozeN).
>
> I am trying to have a setup where I am running squid on rh9 but my
> gateway is doze1. Is it possible for dozeN to access internet using
> squid when the rh9 is not the gateway? Currently I cannot even access
> internet through rh9 using squid (on a dialup) but I can access it if I
> disable the proxy.
>
> How do I configure squid to work with the satellite proxy?
>
> I want the users to be able to access other non-http apps to bypass
> squid, does that happen by default or do I have to do something else?
>
> I am looking for general pointers, hints, links etc... I can work from
> there...
>
> Thanks
>
> Ali
>

"ali" <ali.jan@gmail.com> écrivait news:1121529355.547467.305510
@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
> I am trying to have a setup where I am running squid on rh9 but my
> gateway is doze1.

> Is it possible for dozeN to access internet using
> squid when the rh9 is not the gateway?

Yes, the server that host the proxy must have doze1 as its gateway. Then
squid will make its request throw the gateway.

> Currently I cannot even access
> internet through rh9 using squid (on a dialup) but I can access it if I
> disable the proxy.

Can you access Internet from rh9 (without the proxy) ?

If no, you have to set the gateway of rh9 (gateway=doze1).

If yes, does your doze1 route all internet trafic ? (mail, ftp, ...) or
only the web trafic ? In the last case it means that doze1 runs a web
proxy autodected by your Explorer browser. You may set squid to relay its
request on another proxy (doze1 in thhis case).

> How do I configure squid to work with the satellite proxy?

Wich satellite proxy ? on doze1 ? in your ISP network ?

You must define a peer proxy in the squid configuration.

> I want the users to be able to access other non-http apps to bypass
> squid, does that happen by default or do I have to do something else?

Squid only manager web proxying (http, https). So other applicaitons are
not concerned by squid.


http://www.squid-cache.org/
http://tldp.org

Regards