Re: Transparent proxy broken in 2.1.54

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:52:37 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Jos Vos wrote:

> Chris Evans wrote:
>
> > Subject says it all really. I'm using a simple rule to redirect traffic
> > aimed at port 80, to port 8080 (nice way to avoid having to run a web
> > server as root).
>
> This is an interesting statement, as transparent proxying is broken
> in 2.0.30, 2.0.31-pre1-9 and most 2.1.x kernels (so it didn't work
> in 2.0.31-pre9 either, _when_ the redirect port was different from
> the original port). Don't know how this could work for you...

Well, I've checked, and it works under pre9 here... :-) I gran httpd on
port 8080 and redirected 80->8080. Hitting port 80 with lynx worked....

Cheers
Chris