Thursday, April 5, 2012

Some DHCP/IPTables/Squid Fun

This is one example of using IP tables (Wikipedia, Tutorial) on the router to redirect packets to a gateway/proxy (such as Squid), when connected to the wireless on the airport/home etc. The interesting thing (for me) about the post, was the use of DHCP ranges so as to give a different experience of the internet to a certain section of people. Useful to note for future i thought.

A note on IpTables from here:

iptables is built on top of netfilter, the packet alteration framework for Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x. It is a major rewrite of its predecessor ipchains, and is used to control packet filtering, Network Address Translation (masquerading, portforwarding, transparent proxying), and special effects such as packet mangling.

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