Hi,

I have a Shorewall multi-ISP gateway/router (host1) and beneath it another 
shorewall router (host2) with Squid installed on the same box. I also have 
another Squid server within one of host2's subnets.

Host1 does packet marking via tcrules in order to filter traffic accordingly 
amongst available ISPs.
As an example, mark 1 for all packets coming from 10.215.144.48 and going to 
8.8.8.8 will send/receive packets to/from ISP1.
Likewise, mark 2 for all packets from 10.215.144.7 will send through ISP2, and 
so on...

That works fine for clients within host2's subnets that reach the internet via 
host2+host1 unless there's a proxy in between.

Suppose clients within a host2 subnet are required to use an HTTP proxy such as 
Squid to browse the web, then host1 will mark all of the packets the same way 
since they will be originating from the same IP address, the one where the HTTP 
proxy is at.
So host1 won't be able to mark differently according to the source IP address 
unless the proxy in host2 (or within a host2 subnet) somehow "spoofs" it's IP 
address and impersonates the client's address.

Can an HTTP proxy do that? 
I also require proxy user authentication via a winbind auth plugin so I can't 
use a "transparent proxy" or tproxy, I guess.

Would marking packets on host2 (the inner shorewall router) the same way host1 
would mark them, be a workaround, provided the Squid proxy is on the same 
server as shorewall (ie. host2)?
That way, I guess that packets would be marked before being handled by Squid on 
host2 and sent to the Internet via host1.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Vieri


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