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From: "Sebastian R." <tengaman@wolke7.net>
Subject: But how then does a transparent proxy works?
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:59:59 +0100
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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.