Internet Sharing with a Tor Proxy

[BlueRevolution]

Okay, the situation is this. At the moment, my network looks like:

internet --ethernet--> iMac --AirPort--> iBook

So the iMac is acting as a wireless router using internet sharing. Now, I want traffic from my iBook to the internet to be running through a proxy (specifically Tor), but not from the iMac. Installing Tor on the iBook isn't an option because Tor doesn't support the G3 architecture. Is there any way to run only sharing traffic through the proxy? Hopefully local traffic wouldn't be affected, because there are a bunch of tasks between the two systems that need to stay intact.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

You could try using internet sharing (System Preferences), and share the connection from the iMac with Tor to the iBook over a computer to computer wireless connection.

Not the best solution, but it should work.

 

[BlueRevolution]

That's exactly what I'm doing right now. It just isn't going through Tor.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

That's exactly what I'm doing right now. It just isn't going through Tor.

Oops, totally misread that. I'll come back if I think of anything.

 

[belvdr]

I do not know of a consumer solution for this.

 

[BlueRevolution]

You say "consumer"... you think Mac OS X Server has a solution for this? It might be possible to adapt.

 

[belvdr]

I don't think it could do it either. In the enterprise, I would either use the Layer 4 mechanisms on a switch to divert the traffic to wherever I want, or with Check Point Firewall-1, I could do the same thing.

These are several thousand dollar devices/software, so not really feasible (I don't think).

 

[BlueRevolution]

Hmm, that's odd. After all, I can redirect traffic from individual ports on my own computer to whatever proxy I like in network settings, so why couldn't I do the same with traffic that's passing through my computer?

I can even monitor that traffic in iStat. Surely if I can see it I can control it...