[tproxy] TPROXY + Arp Table

[Jojy Varghese]

Thanks Bazsi. In a real life scenario, where my proxy server will be inside a firewall how can the proxy server make the routing decision? The trafic is always going to flow through the firewall/router and then come to the subnet having the proxy server.



On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 11:01 -0700, Jojy Varghese wrote:
> Hi 
>     I was trying the example
 code given with the patch and couldnt get
> it to work. Upon tcpdump'ing the packets, I found out that my
> firewall(Cisco) sends out a ARP request for the FOREIGN IP address i
> am masquerading the request as and after that the packet is dropped.
> How do I get around this problem? I am sure this is nothing unusual
> setting and I might be missing something fundamental here.
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.

the masquaraded IP address must be routed through the TProxy box.

-- 
Bazsi








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