[stunnel-users] Enhance description of transparent mode in FAQ
Michal Trojnara
Michal.Trojnara at mirt.net
Thu Nov 25 15:56:47 CET 2010
Ivan Trancik <descent89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Remote mode is a "I<connect> option"? What the heck? And
> local mode is a "I<exec> option"? Does this "I" thingie stand for
> unnamed pipe or capital "i" or small cap "L"??
My mistake. I updated in on
http://stunnel.mirt.net/static/stunnel.html#service_level_options
Brian Hatch may eventually mirror it to stunnel.org.
> I ran to this problem when I tried to set up stunnel on Mac OS X and
> carelessly used some example config on web.
Please read the following paragraphs. They explicitly lists supported
platforms.
> Setting "transparent = yes" in Mac OS X will result in very funny
> behavior.
Non-local-bind needs to be supported by the OS kernel. It's not possible
to get this feature running without kernel support.
> Final question - is it possible on OS X (which doesn't have iptables
> interface, but has ipfw) to set up transparent proxy tunnel with
> stunnel?
No.
Mike
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