Making squid use a proxy

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I have a home network with 4-5 clients, and a server. The server runs Squid 2.7. The clients are all configured to use squid as a proxy server. I would like to be able to establish an SSH tunnel with dynamic port forwarding (basically set up a SOCKS proxy), and make all of squid's traffic be tunneled through the SSH connection (or SOCKS proxy) to the remote machine.

I don't think there is an option within squid's config files to do this, so I think that I might have to use iptables - but I am unsure of how to construct such a rule.

If this is not possible, then I might be able to install squid on the remote server, and then use cache_peer. However, I would like to avoid that if at all possible. The fewer the services the better (in my book) - and performance isn't my HIGHEST priority here. I would also like to avoid upgrading to Squid 3.0 at this point... although if it is the best option, I will consider it.

It's the machine running sshd which my proxy server would connect to, and tunnel traffic through. — Joseph Redfern, Jun 08 '11 at 19:19
Ok, but what kind of traffic? Traffic directed to that machine? Traffic meant for other machines behind it? Generic Internet traffic? — Massimo, Jun 08 '11 at 19:24
Traffic meant for both the machines behind the proxy, and for the machine it's self. Although the machines behind the proxy are the most important. — Joseph Redfern, Jun 08 '11 at 19:28
I could do it with a VPN, yes. I was originally hoping to do it with an SSH tunnel, but using OpenVPN might be easier (and could come in handy for other things, too). — Joseph Redfern, Jun 08 '11 at 20:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '11 at 15:06

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I ended up using OpenVPN. I've got another question about that.... but if I end up asking it, I will post separately.

answered Jun 09 '11 at 15:06

Joseph Redfern

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Please mark this as the answer. – pauska Jun 09 '11 at 15:06
Thanks for reminding me. It wouldn't let me do it to begin with (1 day self answer rule) – Joseph Redfern Jun 11 '11 at 19:55

Making squid use a proxy

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