On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 05:03, it clown wrote: > Hi All, > > i am having some trouble in getting irc working through > iptables and squid.When i put a forwarder in my iptables > rule i can connect to irc but when i want to go through the > proxy i have no luck.I have loaded the ip_nat_irc and > tried: > > -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT > --to-ports 3128. which is a nat rule redirecting tcp port 80 traffic to your squid cache running on tcp port 3128. > I have made the changes in squid to allown port 6667. > Port 6667 is allowed OUT. what has has led you to believe that squid can proxy IRC traffic? i may be out of the loop, but AFAIK, squid supports proxying for: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Gopher, and WAIS. even if it did support proxying for IRC, you're only redirecting port 80. for IRC, you'll need to use a forward rule along the lines of: iptables -A FORWARD -i $INSIDE_IF -p tcp --syn --dport 6667 -j ACCEPT HTH... -j disclaimer: the rules contained in this message are meant to illustrate the requested functionality only, and not intended as a recommendation of best practices. never execute any commands without fully understanding the implications. -- Jason Opperisano <opie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
