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hi john thanks again - as you can see from an earlier post i have squid working - and i have listed my ipchains rules. it seems to have no problem with having a dynamic ip address on ppp0 - be interested in any comments. BTW - i WILL check out the dshield.org site site - thanks for all the replies - kev John Horne wrote: > On 08-Nov-2001 at 23:10:49 Simon Waters wrote: > > SQUID I assume also uses the anonymous port range when passing on > > requests. > > > I'd say yes and no :-) Squid will use port 3128 (by default) for the http > port, but use port 3130 for the ICP stuff with its parents/siblings. When > going direct it will use port 80 to access the relevant web servers. The > first 2 port numbers are configurable so you'll need to check your > squid.conf file. > > With respect to ipchains if you allow access to/from your relevant caches > via 3130, allow your clients access to port 3128, and allow your squid > server access out to port 80 on any destination then it may well work :-) > Needless to say if you are simply running the cache on your home PC whilst > accessing the Internet then you won't have any parents/siblings, and the > source address will be your IP address from the ISP (I assume) - > interesting, since that will be dynamic. The other thing, just though of, is > that ipchains kicks in at boot time but you (probably) don't connect to the > ISP until after then (when logged in). As such you won't even be able to > fiddle ipchains to try and determine your IP address when starting. You may > need to connect to the ISP, get the IP address, put that into ipchains and > then restart it. Messy, probably automatable, but again it may well work :-) > > As always, and especially on Friday's, I could be wrong! :-) > > John. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 > E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > PGP key available from public key servers > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.