Re: Comcast problems again

On 06/07/2011 10:18 PM, Martin Maney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:50:13PM -0500, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
>> On 05/26/2011 08:50 PM, Martin Maney wrote:
>>> Not at all.  Since you control the router that all traffic has to pass
>>> through, you can capture the web traffic and force it through a proxy.
>>> You can find descriptions of this in some of those "obsolete" things
>>> written years ago - none of this has really changed much in the last
>>> decade.
>> I would have to reconfigure all my computers to point to the proxy, not
>> directly to the web.
> Not at all.  The traffic all passes through a router that you control,
> right?  If you can't redirect the port 80 traffic to your proxy without
> needing to touch anything on the client, then you're not running Linux
> on the router.  Hint: NAT or masquerade is built on the same sort of
> in-router capture and modify.
OK, that is new since my last exposure to proxy servers, many years ago 
(15? more?).  The link you sent calls that "trans proxy" to distinguish 
that from the traditional proxy that requires changes on every end user 
computer.

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