How to redirect http requests from the lan....

[Pulsar]

Ok. This is a follow up question to my question in "parental filtering".

I have a number of computers all connecting through a single windows XP box with internet connection sharing. The question is this:

I want to run a proxy on that machine. I want this proxy to be the only means to access the internet (for child-filtering reasons).

So I want any normal http request going TO that machine from inside the lan to be redirected to that same machine on port 8080 (the proxy port).

How do I set the server up so that any http requests immediately get forwarded to port 8080 (the proxy port). Is this possible on xp?

I guess this is called "transparent proxying", but I'm fairly new to proxy / http messing, so go easy on me!

 

[drebo]

WCCP was designed to do this (transparently redirect web requests) but it is not supported by Windows ICS. You will need to manually enter the proxy into each machine.

 

[her209]

If you have an extra computer with two network cards available, look into http://www.untangle.com/. Its fairly straight forward to install and setup. And its FREE!