[ILUG] dansguardian, squid, smoothwall and transparent proxying

[Nils Olofsson]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 00:12 +0000, conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com wrote:
> Eeek!  Now that the kids are starting to want to go surfing, I'm working
> on a dansguardian / squid setup for the HAN.  I'm running squid and
> dansguardian on the internal server and smoothwall express on the
> firewall.  I have both dans and squid working and dilligently blocking but
> I have to manually configure the browsers {which the kids will
> {eventually} manually _unconfigure_}.  To avoid this, I tried having
> smoothwall do a transparent proxy thing.  I gave it the ip:port of the
> internal dans server and told it it was transparent.  Now I get an "access
> denied" message from squid for any web access.  I suspect it's the proxy
> equivalent of a mail loop since it's only when I put the smoothwall proxy
> bit in place that this happens.  
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One suggestion is that you could upgrade to ipcop 1.4.2 www.ipcop.org
and use the addons to add support for squidguard.
http://firewalladdons.sourceforge.net/squidguard.html

nils