This walkthrough illustrates how to set up transparent proxying with mitmproxy. We use VirtualBox VMs with an Ubuntu proxy machine in this example, but the general principle can be applied to other setups. 1. **Configure VirtualBox Network Adapters for the proxy machine** The network setup is simple: `internet <--> proxy vm <--> (virtual) internal network`. For the proxy machine, *eth0* represents the outgoing network. *eth1* is connected to the internal network that will be proxified, using a static ip (192.168.3.1).
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\# Listen for DNS requests on the internal network
interface=eth1
\# Act as a DHCP server, assign IP addresses to clients
dhcp-range=192.168.3.10,192.168.3.100,96h
\# Broadcast gateway and dns server information
dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.3.1
dhcp-option=option:dns-server,192.168.3.1
Apply changes:
`sudo service dnsmasq restart`
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 80 \
-j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 \
-j REDIRECT --to-port 8080
4. If required, install the mitmproxy
certificates on the test device.
5. Finally, we can run mitmproxy -T.
The proxied machine cannot to leak any data outside of HTTP or DNS requests.