Re: Problem on transparent FTP-proxy
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:44:31PM +0800, Peter Chu wrote:
Dear Marius Tomaschewski,
Dear Peter Chu, thanks for your Question.
I have read proxy-suite maillist no. 62 and also downloaded your transparent version. I installed it onto RedHat 6.2 with all your advised parameter settings.
I tried to connect from Windows 98 using I.E. 5.5 with FTP proxy setting pointing to the local proxy machine 192.168.0.240 port 21. I tried to go to the RedHat ftp site by entering ftp://ftp.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/redhat/ in the address field.
No, a transparent ftp-proxy is _not_ a proxy you can use in your web-browser. the web-browser proxies "speaks" the http protocol - our proxy is an "real" _ftp_ proxy. If you want a proxy for your web-browser, try squid or something similar. You can use our proxy, if you want to use normal ftp clients like cute-ftp, wftp, igloftp or the ftp command in your dos box. In normal operation you have to connect to the proxy and give them a username _and_ the ftp-server name you want to log in, i.e.: $ ftp proxy.yourdomain.de Name: anonymous@ftp.suse.com (here you have to enable the MagicUser directive). Now, in the transparent ftp-proxy implementation you can do it directly. you set up the proxy on a gateway and redirect all incomming connections from your internal network, that are going to the internet to your proxy (i.e. with ipchains on a linux box - see example config in /usr/doc/packages/fwproxy/TRANSPARENT_PROXY.txt). After this you can simply do a $ ftp ftp.suse.com Name: anonymous that's all :-)
Client station are using Windows 9x and I have got the Squid http proxy running to handle the http routing. ^^^^^^^^^^
yes, that is the reason. our proxy is a ftp proxy.
I want to know if FTP-proxy will resolve the proxy routing. I am new to all these topics and have already been messing with the proxy-suite from ver 1.5 to 1.7, SuSE and RedHat for a few days but still in a misery.
Would appreciate if you can give me some guidelines and installation hints.
Thanks a lot
Peter Chu
Kind Regards,
Marius Tomaschewski
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