hello,
i have a computer running squid. i need to connect other computer to the outside
computer through port 8888. how can i setup squid to allow this?
thank you

You simply point your other computer to the IP address and the port number squid is running on when defining a proxy server. If you need to change the port squid actually runs on, within your squid.conf file right at the top, a line will define the squid port number. Change this value, then tell squid to re-read it's config file with adjusted to wherever your squid executable is.

hi, thanks for the answer
i'm actually a newbie, so i don't quite understand
mmm...the computer A is running a program that needs to connect to port 8888 of other computer in
the internet, but there is a proxy server computer running squid that manages the connection between
that computer A and the internet.....so I wonder how to set the squid proxy.
should i use the acl method connect? or there is other way? and the port of my squid is 8080,
thank you

Okay, think I understand now.

Is the machine running Squid the one connected directly to the Internet, or do you have a separate router? If you have a separate router, your program should just point straight to the IP address of the router and it will be handled automatically. If you Internet connection is direct from the Squid machine, you should just be able to set up NAT + masquerading using a couple of simple iptable rules to forward Internet traffic. Squid shouldn't have much to do with the connection to be honest, as whatever the application is should be able to go straight to the Internet without Squid interfering.

Hi,
The machine running squid is the one connected to the Internet,
I don't really know how to set the NAT and the masquerading things...could you help me?
Thank you,