I guess there are a few things I can see here, there are a number of = solutions for this problem. first you deny web access to all but one machine, through the firewall. This will stop users from cheating by removing the proxy settings. second, you could also install squid on your firewall and allow the = users through that -----Original Message----- From: Fl=E1vio Brito [mailto:flavio@gral.com.br] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:03 PM To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Subject: Newbie Question -forcing to pass in squid Dear Friends I have two machines, and I trying to force all port 80 traffic to pass in SQUID 3128. But when people unset proxy in browser, they bypass SQUID to the Internet . I cannot put transparent proxy, because SQUID is authenticating. Suggestions? Thanks=20 Fl=E1vio =20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FW |-------------------------------| | eth0 - 200.1.2.3 |----------------------> [INTERNET] | eth1 - 192.168.1.1 | |-------------------------------| | | SQUID | |-------------------------------| | eth0 - 192.168.1.33 | |-------------------------------| | | INTERNAL_LAN | |-------------------------------| | 192.168.1.0/24 | |-------------------------------| My Example iptables -F iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p all -j ACCEPT # - Allow self access by loopback interface iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -p all -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT #- Accept established connections iptables -A FORWARD -o eth0 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s $INTERNAL_NET -o $EXT -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -d 192.168.1.33 iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128