Hi

short form:

Is it possible to tell tinyproxy that it has to connect to the internet via another proxy? Or do I have to use squid?

long form:

I'm using a WRT54GL with Kamikaze 7.09 in a big network.
The WRT54GL has to vlans: VLAN1 gets an IP from the big network and VLAN2 provides a second network for wlan clients.

The WRT54GL and the wlan clients have to use a proxy in the big network to connect to the internet.
Now, I want to use tinyproxy as transparent proxy, I redirect all traffic from the wlan clients with iptables to tinyproxy, so that the wlan clients don't have to enter a proxy.

My problem is that I don't know how to tell tinyproxy that it has to use the proxy of the big network for all connections.
Is that possible or do I have to use squid?

Yes.  Here's the relevant bit of tinyproxy.conf-

# The upstream rules allow you to selectively route upstream connections
# based on the host/domain of the site being accessed.
#
# For example:
#  # connection to test domain goes through testproxy
#  upstream testproxy:8008 ".test.domain.invalid"
#  upstream testproxy:8008 ".our_testbed.example.com"
#  upstream testproxy:8008 "192.168.128.0/255.255.254.0"
#
#  # no upstream proxy for internal websites and unqualified hosts
#  no upstream ".internal.example.com"
#  no upstream "www.example.com"
#  no upstream "10.0.0.0/8"
#  no upstream "192.168.0.0/255.255.254.0"
#  no upstream "."

Hope this helps,
Charlie

(Last edited by ciscostu on 7 Jun 2008, 17:39)

ah ok thanks.
I didn't thought they would call that upstream.