transparent squid bridge

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:51:10AM -0700, Dan Vande More wrote:
> Hey all

how about applying the patch manually ? It is so trivial
it would have taken less than posting this message...

cheers
luigi

> Trying to get freebsd to do some simple redirecting using ipfw2.
> 
> Luigi Rizzo's patch isn't working.
> 
> http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=14795
> 
> Applying the patch yields:
> 
> ********************************************************
> Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
> The text leading up to this was:
> --------------------------
> |RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/netinet/ip_fw2.c,v
> |retrieving revision 1.6.2.16
> |diff -u -r1.6.2.16 ip_fw2.c
> |--- ip_fw2.c 17 Jul 2003 06:03:39 -0000 1.6.2.16
> |+++ ip_fw2.c 22 Sep 2003 22:21:38 -0000
> --------------------------
> Patching file ip_fw2.c using Plan A...
> patch: **** malformed patch at line 7: goto done;
> *********************************************************
> 
> Is this ever going to make it's way into the main source code?
> Does any one have a working patch for this, the full file or an
> alternative setup?
> 
> It doesn't matter which version of freebsd I have to run, I just need a
> version.
> 
> All I really want is a box, with 2 network cards.
> This box sits between users and the outgoing router acting as a bridge.
> The box sees all outbound port 80 connections, diverts them to squid
> running on itself. 
> Squid retrieves the site, caches the data, etc.
> 
> I can do it with openbsd/pf but openbsd in and of itself can't handle
> much of a load.
> Using the same rules in freebsd pf that I do in openbsd, can I expect it
> to work?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dan Vande More
> 
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