Hi all,
I need some help configuring squid.we have a server and made a proxy server by installing squid.I gave http access to some clients and clients are able to access web but the problem is if i want to connect to quake servers online from clients..its not working.

first i created a acl list and allowed http_access for that list.

how do i enable access to other ports also from clients...?

btw there is no firewall installed at server and i am able to connect to quake from server...

waiting for ur reply...

bye

Access to the Quake servers doesn't require HTTP access. I don't think Quake uses HTTP for communicating with the servers during a multplayer game session. Anyways you first need to find out the ports for Quake servers i.e. the port(s) on which the servers run. You can use a packet sniffer such as tcpdump/ethereal to find that out. After that you need to enable routing on your box by doing

echo '1' > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

This would enable IP forwarding on your box. You should then use iptables to define which packets should be routed. Once you have found out the ports for Quake servers, lets say,for example it is 6867 then you should something like the following

iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -j DROP
iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp --dport 6867 -j ACCEPT

This shall do it.

I hope it helps!

Find out the ports for Quake server. Once you do so, add a few lines in the squid.conf file to allow/deny ports. Given below is the portion of my squid.conf file that blocks ports:

=====
acl Safe_ports port 80 443 1025-65535
http_access allow Safe_ports
http_access deny !Safe_ports
=====

Add this somewhere at the beginning of your ACLs. Add the reqd. ports in the first line.

This will also help if you want to block specific ports.

Hope this helps.

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Guru