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From: "Sebastian R." <tengaman@wolke7.net>
To: "Jorge Dávila" <jorgedavilalopez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: But how then does a transparent proxy works?
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:59:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090221115959.GA2531@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf0e93a30902202011t7391fe73v31017baf89f83bdf@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks,

but I still don't understand how this makes any sense whith regards to
a transparent proxy configuration.
From the tutorial:
>Locally generated packets are mapped to the 127.0.0.1 address. In other
>words, this rewrites the destination address to our own host for packets
>that are forwarded, or something alike.
>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
The proxy couldn't tell where the package was destined for, if the
destination address was mapped to 127.0.0.1.


Thanks for your time

Sebastian R.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-21 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-21  0:27 What does the redirect target in detail? Sebastian Roemer
2009-02-21  4:11 ` Jorge Dávila
2009-02-21 11:59   ` Sebastian R. [this message]
2009-02-21 17:48     ` [SOLVED] But how then does a transparent proxy works? Sebastian Roemer

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