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Re: [LUG] Transparent proxying using iptables

 

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Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Simon Williams wrote:
> 
>>Hello everyone.
>>At my Uni they have a standard NAT setup, with one major exception- no 
>>traffic is allowed to port 80. Instead, you have to go through their 
>>proxy server, which runs on port 8080.
>>  
> 
> Odd.
> Why don't they route all port 80 traffic to their proxy, regardless of
> what port they use for that, and what people on the network think they
> are getting.

Certain things get upset when this happens. Most notably Windows Update,
unless Microsoft have worked out how to fix it...
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