> From: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:55:43 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Re: transparent proxy problem with Linux 2.2.13
>
> Hi Alan.
>
> >> I thought I was being pretty conservative by waiting till 2.2.13
> >> before upgrading. But it seems not quite conservative enough. I
> >> guess that not too many people use the transparent proxy
> >> functionality.
>
> > It certainly seems to be little used. It did actually work in
> > some earlier 2.2 releases but nobody noticed it broke when the
> > socket hashes changed
>
> Is that likely to be fixed anytime soon? I've just accepted a system
> for configuring under RedHat 6.1 that is to be used as a combined
> firewalled gateway with transparent proxy implemented, so this is
> definately bad news for me !!!
>
> Alternatively, which STABLE kernel can I use where it works and there
> aren't any bugs I can't work round?
I've been using transparent proxying on 2 busy squid servers without any
noticed problems. One is a RH 5.2 system upgraded to 2.2.9. The other is
RH 6.1 using RH's 2.2.12-20 kernel. Both are using aic7xxx SCSI and md
striping for the squid cache_dir.
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