[fortmacjack]

Hi,

I have recently installed dd-wrt on my linksys router (successfully i might add )

The version i am running is:
Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) micro
Router: Linksys WRT54Gv8 / GSv7 - operating in GAteway mode

IPtables are relatively new to me, i have done some tinkering with Cisco's in the past but am currently struggling.

What i am trying to accomplish:
I want to forward / redirect traffic on port 80 and 443 coming from an internal machine to an external proxy server. The true destination address must not be changed from the internal machine so that the Proxy Server can send and recieve the request on the clients behalf.

IS this possible to do - i believe it appears to be
Any help would be so appreciated!

Thanks in advance

[phuzi0n]

See the wiki for policy based routing.

[fortmacjack]

Really,

Currently 46 people read the post and the only response i receive is to read a wiki? I read the 3 or so paragraphs on policy based routing and it does not meet the conditions i require. Additionally like i mentioned in my original post, i am new to both iptables and dd-wrt. I am reading; however the information available on IPtables is vast and am also uncertain if DD-WRT supports all the available features that iptables brings to the table.

I am very dissappointed in the lack of assistance and professionalism coming from this forum. I have read other posts with the same response - read, read, read.. People use forums to seek help from those who are already adept with the task at hand which also accelerates our learning curve. Furthermore if your experitise can manage to only conjure a comment such as "read" then why bother posting, unless some how your vast knowledge makes you feel superior to those of us who lack the same knowledge and or skillset. And sure you spent many hours and late nights reading, experimenting and deploying; But does this mean i need to already be an expert before i ask a question, because in that case i wouldn't need help would I?

[slobodan]

Don't whine so much about professional help, since this forum is all done by volunteers. Besides, there are certain rules for getting help, i.e. stating what you tried to do till now, after reading the wiki, what error messages you get, and other stuff which makes people comprehend the problem you are having. "Teach me iptables" requires taking a whole course, it is not a question for a forum post.

[fortmacjack]

As stated the level of professionalism is poor. So the excuse for not providing any tangible assistance is because it is run by volunteers. So when you volunteer as a medic you should tell the patients to go look up their ailment in a medical dictionary. Please...lol..

As for the problem,. it is described and while im learning about Iptables, it would have been nice to draw on experienced users to provide a solution for my scenario.

If you consider the facts to be whining then maybe you should volunteer at Macdonalds.

This will be my last post.. Appreciate the help!

[Vespian]

Last time I checked, dd-wrt was open source and free.. And unless you paid for your own flavor of it, you are not a paying customer.

Oh there is also this little bit about this forum being a community driven project _not_ moderated by the development team. Which if you would have some your due diligence in reading the plethora of information made available to you by the volunteers on this forum, you would know.

There is no professional support. Deal with it.

[booboss1982]

I'm afraid it might be not possible without messing on your proxy server. You can redirect to your proxy but it's not possible to NOT change destination IP. So in second move you have to make "backward" rule on your proxy server somehow.

[phuzi0n]

If you want a complex solution handed to you then the best way to get it is to pay for it, otherwise you can research and learn. Port based policy routing is exactly what you described and while I did not explain this exactly on the wiki, it is explained by the sites linked at the end. An easier solution may be to just route everything to the proxy server and use it as your gateway router.