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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide
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Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

by Kulbir Saini
February 2011
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
9h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide

Diverting HTTP traffic to Squid

We learned in previous sections that we need to divert all HTTP traffic from our clients to our proxy server. Later, we'll have a look at the ways in which we can divert HTTP traffic to our Squid proxy server.

Using a router's policy routing to divert requests

If we have an arrangement where all our client requests are passing through a router, we can utilize the router's ability to divert the packets, to redirect them to our Squid proxy server. Therefore if we set our router's policy to redirect all the packets with port 80 to the Squid server and all other traffic is sent to the internet directly, it will look like the following diagram:

In the previous diagram, we can see that the router is passing all the HTTP ...

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