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Re: (ASCEND) Setting up a filter to force all traffic on ports 80 and 443 to a proxy server

After delving into the TNT manual and configuring a couple of different
filters to show my department head what can and cannot be done, they are
starting to explore other avenues.  I appreciate the responses that I
received from the list as they were added support when I explained we had to
come up with something else.  They have a desire to make the proxy use as
simple as possible, I am currently working on writing a URL for automatic
configuration and see if they find that acceptable.

John Hough

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Howard <jhoward@lyceum.com>
To: ascend-users@bungi.com <ascend-users@bungi.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Setting up a filter to force all traffic on ports 80
and 443 to a proxy server


>At 17:09 1998/02/24 -0800, John Hough wrote:
>>We have a MaxTNT that I need to force traffic through a proxy server.  The
>>software vendor says to "just setup an ip filter to force the traffic to
the
>>proxy".  I have not done an extensive amount of work with the filter setup
>
>a "proxy" on what level? HTTP/FTP/winsock?
>something like a TIS application level HTTP proxy?
>or something like a Vixie box that acts more like a filtering router?
>(see http://www.mirror-image.com/ for more info)
>
>if the former, I don't think there is anything you can do except
>block all HTTP traffic that _DOESN'T_ go to the proxy,
>and would require the user to configure the proxy on their browser
>or whatever client software that must be aware of the proxy.
>
>if the later, you _can_ configure a connection to use
>a specific default route for that connection only (client gateway)
>to send all non-local traffic, or specify that all traffic (ip direct)
>should be forwarded to a specific router/proxy/server.
>
>-Jim H
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