On Wed, October 6, 2010 11:51, Daniel Herbert-Ward wrote: > I know this can be done, because at work I went to www.whatismyip.com and > it came up with MY machines IP address, and I did confirm that it was my > machines ip address at the time. and then I tried it again a few weeks > later, and all of a sudden after asking the technicians of why this was > happening, the site then showed the INTERNAL IP address of the squid > machine. So I am curious to how to set this up please. > Well maybe that particular site is identifying the "X-Fordwarded-For" header. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For You can turn it off with: forwarded_for off http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/forwarded_for/ > On 6/10/2010, at 10:36 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: > >> On Wed, October 6, 2010 11:25, Daniel Herbert-Ward wrote: >>> Hi guys, I would like to change the external IP address of my whole >>> network by using squid 3. As in, I know there is a way to show the >>> clients >>> IP address of THEIR machine when they go to a site like >>> www.whatismyip.com >>> But I have no idea on what to put into the squid config in order for >>> this >>> to work, Can you please help me?? >>> >> >> If you are using Squid at all then when your clients go to >> www.whatismyip.com they will see the external IP of the Squid machine. >> >> The only way to change this is to change the IP address of the Squid >> machine. >> >> Those sites simply display the IP that is making the request from their >> point of view, and you cannot hide that kind of information, without >> breaking TCP communication in the first place. >> >> > > >
