Just how efficient is the proxy in mikrotik ?

RouterOS General
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I want to use a mikrotik box, on a pc, for proxy on my network.
I just wonder if it is better/worse than a debian box with squid. (Wich I have to pay for configuring, but that’s not the point)

Is it neccessary to be a router, or it can be a transparent bridge, with 2 ethernet interfaces, and put right before the gateway ?

Wich one do you recommend ?

I mean you guys who use the proxy, wich way do you have it impemented ?

I did not used the proxy in MT till now.
And now i am testing it by miself, for single client, for not disturbing the clients. So I really cannot tell hot it works.

Thanks in advance to all.

2

you don’t need to put web proxy before GW.

…ISP
…|
…|
…GW--------PROXY
…|
…|
…Clients

Just redirect all tcp port 80 traffic to webproxy server, that’s all

3

Thx.

But how do you do that ?
I mean, what are the addresses on the 2 interfaces of the router ?
Or is 1 only enough ?

4

you need only one interface for web-proxy.

5

In both the ROS manual and the Wiki you will find how to do this

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/How_to_make_transparent_web_proxy

6

thx.
tonight I will do a setup with a proxy.
it will have a PII/500 with 512mb/40gb.
Hope will suffice for about 5 mbit bandwidth.
At least for the beggining.