yes thats true better u deny all going directly deny them all who want to go directly in the rule allow them who are going through the proxy best of luck hare ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Saenz" <ksaenz@citistreet.com.au> To: "Flávio Brito" <flavio@gral.com.br>; <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:16 AM Subject: RE: Newbie Question -forcing to pass in squid 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: Flávio 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 Flávio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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