How to config squid to use a socks as parent or cascade

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I have a socks server and a squid linux server.

How can config squid to use socks (as parent or proxy chain or cascade) ?

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Squid does not implement socks. You need to run an intermediate proxy server which can talk to both squid and your socks server such as privoxy.

When done, you can configure squid to use privoxy as parent using a line like:

cache_peer 127.0.0.1       parent    8118  0  no-query default

where 8118 is privoxy port assuming it is running the on same host.

You may need also to play with never_direct and always_direct configuration parameters of squid.

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Squid Config – Allow Same User Multiple IPs

Try something like:

acl user41 proxy_auth manfred
acl user41 myip x.213.223.188

acl user42 proxy_auth manfred
acl user42 myip x.213.223.189

and leave the tcp_outgoing_adress as is.

EDIT: ah yes, maybe instead something like

acl ip_1 myip x.213.223.188
tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.188 ip_1

acl ip_2 myip x.213.223.189
tcp_outgoing_address x.213.223.189 ip_2

and leave the proxy_auth acls alone:

acl user_manfred proxy_auth manfred

Then

http_access allow user_manfred ip_1
http_access allow user_manfred ip_2

How to enable SOCKS5 for Squid proxy

Have a look at this page. It talks about squid socks support and how you can build it to support SOCKS connections. The status is "testing". So, you may need to think about using it for production.

When building squid, you need to define these variables:

export CFLAGS=" -Dbind=SOCKSbind "
export CXXFLAGS=" -Dbind=SOCKSbind "
export LDADD=" -lsocks "

to modify build and link options.

Also, you can pass these variables to configure script. If you have already built squid, you can find out the current values using squid -v. This will show you squid version along with configure and build options.

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Squid Config – Allow Same User Multiple IPs

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