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[Jay Desjardins <jay.p.desjardins@xxxxxxx>]

Good afternoon,

  I have been working on a new squid/Smart Filter/tproxy setup for our 
campus and have run into a few problems. One is that I am using 
squid-2.5-stable-9 because of SmartFilter (our campus wide filter) being 
finicky on what version of squid that I am running. Another note is I 
need to have Tproxy because the squid server is in between our users and 
a packeteer, so I need for the packeteer to see the IP of the request so 
users can be put into their own "bucket" for priority.  The packeteer 
won't transparent proxy, so I get all the same ip which means I can't 
create different rules on the proxy server. That means I need to do some 
work on the firewall to create "allow" all rules, this just complicates 
things greatly.

  current  setup = users -> firewall with tproxy -> packeteer -> squid 
server with SmartFilter (which also defeats some of the rules in the 
SmartFilter because of the same ip of the packeteer) ->  firewall -> 
Internet

  What I want to do = users -> squid/tproxy/smartfilter -> packeteer -> 
firewall -> Internet
This way I can slim down the firewall rules for "allow all access" and 
less lag going thru because it's more of a strait shot then a loop.

  I got this patch, 
http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-dev/200510/0161.htm and I 
have tried to install it on my Red Hat EL4 server, to no avail. I found 
myself having to manually install the patch, with it still producing 
many errors (H and C files not matching up/incorrect syntax). It also is 
using X-forward which I don't want to use.
  I would really like to get this running correctly, within the limits 
I have (with only being able to run a few versions of squid).

Thank you,
Jay