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Re: Problem on transparent FTP-proxy
- From: Marius Tomaschewski <mt@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:11:46 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20000825151228.C9424@xxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(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 <mt@xxxxxxx>
--
SuSE GmbH, Buero Hamburg - SuSE Labs, Product Developement
PGP public key available: http://www.suse.de/~mt/mt.pgp
Fprint: EA 1F 92 75 1A F9 82 07 A1 28 DE 7A 32 E8 97 18
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(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 <mt@xxxxxxx>
--
SuSE GmbH, Buero Hamburg - SuSE Labs, Product Developement
PGP public key available: http://www.suse.de/~mt/mt.pgp
Fprint: EA 1F 92 75 1A F9 82 07 A1 28 DE 7A 32 E8 97 18
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