Hi, With you - yes. As you say, he'll need to find out if the linux box can download files itself before establishing whether they can be transmitted through squid. He should probably also watch his messages file with tail -f /var/log/messages on the server while doing it. Andy
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On Sep 26, Andrew Bennett
wrote: I'm not sure I understand you, Markus. I use squid as a proxy server for web browsing including downloading files by ftp for all the users on my network, (except me), and have done for years. He was talking about _transparent_ proxy, this means that the proxy is not configured at client end, but all packets going to port 80 are intercepted and routed to the squid proxy. This way you can force users to go over
On 9/26/02, 6:54:25 PM, Markus Gaugusch
proxy. If "normal browsing" works, but no downloading, I guess that the MTU is set wrong or something else. Gabriel: Do downloads work from the linux box? Try to download a file that fails with wget from the linux box.