Re: How do I know my Connection is Encrypted.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:33:42PM -1000, Mike Gibbons wrote:
> sudo tcpdump -i eth0 -n not proto 47
> 
> I saw lots of local network traffic. When I pinged yahoo.com I saw:
> 
> 23:25:02.571512 IP 10.0.1.1.59535 > 10.0.1.100.53: 19443+ A? yahoo.com. (27)
> 23:25:02.590849 IP 10.0.1.100.53 > 10.0.1.1.59535: 19443 3/0/0 A
> 209.191.122.70, A 72.30.38.140, A 98.139.183.24 (75)
> 
> I don't know if this means its working or not.

It means your ping of yahoo.com went direct from the client to the
target, without going via the server.

> Based on your analogies I'm beginning to think I need squid at the
> server to achieve encryption back to the client.

No, you probably just need to set a default route so that all traffic
goes via the server.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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