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access external mail ( pop using outlook) with a linux gateway

Asked by: cabir

hi,
i have a cable modem that is connected to a linux machine ( the gateway). I configured squid on that machine and everything works properly, except i cant access my external mail using outllok or other mail client.

i appreciate any help,
cheers

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2005-05-08 at 04:44:09ID21416504
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by: jleviePosted on 2005-05-08 at 09:07:58ID: 13954637

Squid can't proxy POP, IMAP, or SMTP traffic. To allow those you need to configure a NAT'ing firewall on the Linux box to allow direct Internet access from the inside clients.

 

by: apsivamPosted on 2005-05-09 at 05:58:25ID: 13959037

if you are not familiar with linux iptables to setup NAT use firestarter you can get it from the following url http://www.fs-security.com/ it helps you to configure NAT using an easy GUI.

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Cheers,
Sivam
www.emmeskay.com

 

by: cabirPosted on 2005-05-09 at 07:08:39ID: 13959637

I´d like to configure my linux box to allow POP, IMAP or SMTP traffic. I found a lot of iptables rules and I can now access POP, but with it I can´t surf the web.

I think the firewall must have a rule allowing SQUID, if so, how is that?

thanks for the tips,

 

by: RedimidoPosted on 2005-05-09 at 08:08:08ID: 13960247

once you have setup your linux box as NAT with iptables, you should be able to surf the web, provided you have correctly specified the DNS' on your client.

if you want IPTables still acelerating your connection, you will need

a) to maintain the browser setup specifying the proxy data

or

b) to setup a transparent proxy in iptables and in squid.

for squid transparent proxy, add these lines to squid.conf:

# Para  el proxy transparente
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on


for iptables to redirect any web access to squid:
(use the example and fill your own network)
LAN=192.168.0.0/24
$ipt -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s $LAN  --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128
------
don't forget to add correct dns data on your clients.
to setup a dns-cache on your linux box, just start named. then you can use the ip of your linux box as DNS.
if you are using a redhat like distribution, use:

chkconfig --level 345 named on

 

by: cabirPosted on 2005-05-16 at 03:09:14ID: 14008965

Hello,
I could set up my linux box to allow mail and web access. I have one last problem, the default gateway of my network is a windows server 2003, from that machine i can access everything, but from any client on the network i only access web ( through squid).

regards

 

by: RedimidoPosted on 2005-05-16 at 08:59:19ID: 14011409

well you need to edit routes and give the route to 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 to the linux box on your windows gateway

 

by: cabirPosted on 2005-05-18 at 00:16:31ID: 14024916

hello,
the clients of my dhcp server ( a ws2003 machine) can´t get the default gateway ip. it only get ip address and netmask, but no default gateway.
when i set up that information manually everything works properly. what to do to clients get the default gateway value?...

regards

 

by: RedimidoPosted on 2005-05-18 at 06:30:27ID: 14026837


add this to your subnet definition

# The Gateway for the local network
option  routers ip.of.your.router;

and maybe you'll need this too:

option domain-name-servers ip.of.your.dns;

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