I am using smoothwall 2.0 and in it's adminpage you can set the proxy to be transparent. And in the rc.firewall.up file I put in /sbin/iptables -t nat -I squid -p tcp -s ! 192.168.0.45 --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 800 But I have no idea if this is good or bad. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Cannings Sent: March 31, 2004 3:40 PM To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bypass transparent proxy(Squid) On Wednesday 31 March 2004 19:29, Jerry Robles de Medina wrote:, > I have read somewhere along the posts that it is possible to let 2 pc's > (ip's) bypass a transparent proxy server(squid cache). I have tried it > in the rc.firewall.up file but I cannot get it working. Please explain what you have tried, including the output of your chains from: iptables -L -nvx; iptables -L -t nat -nvx David