On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Craig Schlenter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 03:52:08PM +0100, RoMaN SoFt / LLFB !! wrote: > You'd have to ask the squid list if squid can do transparent ftp in much the > same way as it does http but I think the answer is no. I do know that squid > will proxy ftp for you if you point your browser ftp proxy settings at it > manually however. Squid can't talk ftp to your client, it can only talk ftp to the servers. If you configure your browser to use a "ftp-proxy" it talks http to the proxy, which then does the ftp requests. > What I was saying however is that you don't need a separate program to > 'proxy' your ftp. It's built into the kernel provided you compile the > right modules and tweak the right settings. The kernel only knows about NATing ftp - which is different from proxying. I think what Roman asks' is about a program which he could transparently redirect his clients ftp-connections to and which will cache/mangle/whatever the transfers. c'ya sven -- The Internet treats censorship as a routing problem, and routes around it. (John Gilmore on http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
