Transparent Proxy for Starband internet access

[rpcyan]

Alright, this is a two part thing. Here's the first one:

How do I go about making squid a transparent proxy? I currently use winproxy, and it allows for everybody's applications to not require proxy settings. I want to keep this.

How do I proxy starband? Starband is a satellite ISP, and it uses a cascading proxy of some sort. Plus the fact that it does a lot of caching, since satellite has a high latency. This one could probably only be best answered by someone else that has attempted this. BTW, I'm using the StarBand 360 modem, not the older 180.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[qweqwe1]

i am not sure how this would vary / affect ur internet connection using starband.

First of all configure ur squid on the internet gateway box. there are so many howtos that would help u to do so. lets assume that ur proxy is on port 8080. then u need to configure using IPtables / IPchains to forward all the requests to port 80 (web) to port 8080 (web-proxy). Again u can find these rules in the Howto itself.

On the client machines just configure the default gateway and everything else would be automatically taken care of.

Post back if u hv any questions.

HTH,
-qweqwe