Aaron Wright wrote: > I wanted to add Squid to my home network for web caching. This is the > setup I was thinking about. > > > +-------+ +--------+ +----------+ > | CABLE | | BRIDGE | | ROUTER | > | +------+ +-------+ | > | MODEM | | SQUID | | | > +-------+ +--------+ ++-+-+-+-+-+ snip > With all the different connections I thought that the only place that > made sense to put Squid, where it could catch all the traffic, would > be between the Cable Modem and the Router. Would this work? It would work, but you could run squid anywhere, you just need to redirect the traffic accordingly. > I've tried setting it up for the last two days, but I've had no luck. > I can make a bridge on the Squid box so that everyone can still access > the internet, but every time I use iptables to redirect traffic to > Squid, web pages stop working. Please post your iptables setup (the relevant parts). Also, which kernel/distro are you running? - there was an issue with icmp redirects a while ago. > I've tried several different Squid configurations. Frankly, the shear > number of options is overwhelming. I tried to follow This is most probably not a squid issue, postpone fiddling with squid until you've got the basic setup working. Here's what I do: on my router/firewall: iptables -A PREROUTING -t mangle -i eth0 -p tcp --dport http -j MARK --set-mark 3 ip route add default via <squidbox> dev eth0 table transproxy ip rule add fwmark 3 table transproxy -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland.
