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Re: (ASCEND) Setting up a filter to force all traffic on ports 80 and 443 t
Or he could change the gateway of his box to the proxy server and set it
up so that it allowed all other packets through it.
Regards,
Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Tim Basher 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
> > on the TNT so maybe I am missing something. I understand how to setup the
> > filter to block the traffic, not how to redirect it. I am going to continue
> > going grey by playing with this, any insight or manual pages would be
> > greatly appreciated. Off to read the TNT manual again.
>
> I believe you are misunderstanding the software vendor. You are correct that
> Ascend packet filters block traffic and do not redirect traffic. I think the
> software vendor means - by blocking traffic to any other address or port you
> are "forcing" traffic to only access the proxy server, but not redirecting
> traffic to the proxy server.
>
> Not that there is anything wrong with going grey (I know some very nice people
> that are both grey and balding) but a filter does not change the destination
> address or port of a packet. What you seem to be wanting would require some
> form of Network Address Translation (NAT).
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