On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:11:17AM +0100, RoMaN SoFt / LLFB !! wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:53:55 +0300 (EAT), you wrote: > > >Exactly what doi you want to achieve? Please be a little clearer. > > I was wondering if it is possible to achieve some kind of transparent > proxying (something like squid does with http) with FTP. HTTP use Host > field in headers to help the process and FTP hasn't any similar > option. But perhaps somebody has invented a way to do this "ftp > proxying" or something similar. Yes it is possible. Linux has supported transparent ftp proxying for some time however it is a requirement that the linux box be on the default route for the ftp traffic so it can grab the packets, check the original destination and proxy the traffic. There are non-transparent ftp proxy arrangements such as those offered by the TIS fwtk ftp-gw proxy too btw. Check out the masquerading faqs and/or the new netfilter documentation for info on getting linux boxes to 'proxy' ftp. --Craig - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
