Re: I'd like to contribute to Squid

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:32 +0000, Munteanu Eduard Gabriel wrote:
> Hello, my name is Eduard Munteanu, from Romania.
>
> I feel like Squid lacks something: it can't make it's connections
> originate from different IP addresses. It would be nice if Squid could
> do something like cached IP Forwarding of HTTP requests. If you like the
> idea, I'm willing to contribute some code, since I have clues about
> where to start working. Maybe you can give me some tips.
>
> Squid should be able to bind the outgoing interface's secondary IP
> addresses to it's sockets, thus mapping these addresses to LAN clients
> (either in a SNAT-like or plain IP Forward-like manner). Right now,
> Squid is not suitable if you have multiple public IPs, since you're not
> using them.
>
> Best regards.

Hi Eduard, glad you want to help with squid. Are you aware of the
tcp_outgoing_address config entry which will let you use any addresses
you want for the requests squid makes?

Cheers,
Rob

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