[tor-talk] Request for Help Configuring Torbutton for Remote Polipo

[Jim]

hikki at Safe-mail.net wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Jack Waugh" <zqrfvbhhdb at snkmail.com>
> 
>> I want to run Polipo on a "server" machine and Firefox with Torbutton 
>> on distinct client machines not having Polipo or Tor loaded on them.  
>> How do I set it up?
>>
>> I tried it with Polipo listening on its default port of 8123.  I set 
>> Polipo's proxyAddress = "0.0.0.0" so it would listen to requests  I set 
>> its allowedClients = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.2.0/24 since my client machine 
>> is in the latter network.  These settings sufficed to allow me to brows 
>> to Polipo's manual from the client machine (before I loaded TorButton).
>>
>> So with TorButton I tried configuring its SOCKS, http, and SSL proxy 
>> settings to point to the server machine and port 8123, but its test 
>> failed.  So what is the right way to set it up, and please explain the 
>> underlying logic.
> 
> Your server must have two LAN devices, or at least one LAN device for 
> your client and one WLAN device for the Internet.


I don't see why.  I run Tor/Privoxy as a server on a computer with a
single ethernet device (no wireless) just fine.  I usually use SSH
tunnels to send data from client machines instead of connecting to
Privoxy directly from the LAN, but I don't see how that fundamentally
changes anything.  (I just did a quick check w/o the SSH tunnel and it 
seemed to work fine.)  You would have to make sure that Polipo or 
Privoxy (or Tor, if using it w/o a proxy) is listening on the LAN 
connection and make sure any firewall is configured appropriately.

Now if you want to *force* the clients to use Tor, via transparent proxy
or otherwise, rather than access the Internet directly, you might need
two interfaces.  I really haven't thought that one through

Jim