Mirotik as proxy client only for certain sites / IP's

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Hey guy’s.

I have a nice one here :slight_smile:
I’m running a RB450 with 1 port on DSL, 2 ports for wired LAN, 1 port for the Wireless network (both running hotspot and PPPoE servers) and the final port on a seperate private network (lets call it LAN-X).

Every thing is working hunky dory - the next thing I want to do is route access from the hotspot networks to the web servers on “LAN-X”. This is still the simple part (I think). Set up routes for destination network…etc. The problem comes in where “LAN-X” is a network configured with a proxy server. So in order for me to brows the servers on “LAN-X”, I need to configure the mikrotik port on that network as a proxy client so that any sites / hosts to be accessed on that network uses the proxy settings.

Could any one give me some suggestions?
This is obviously not a simple case of “configuring proxy on mikrotik”. I’m thinking some combination of transparent proxy mixed with proxy rules will be required. But then again, I haven’t worked a lot with mikrotik proxy settings in the past, so I’m pretty much in the dark here and could be way off.

I don’t want to proxy ALL traffic on my hotspots, so I need to set it up so that only traffic routed thru the “LAN-X” port uses the proxy settings…

For those who like pictures, I’m attatching one for you :slight_smile:

Thank you for looking into this.
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It would seem a lot easier to simply allow requests from the wireless network to bypass the LAN-X proxy server.

You ‘could’ configure the proxy on the Mikrotik to use the LAN-X proxy as its parent proxy but this would then be for ALL connections via the Mikrotik proxy.

Not 100% sure I’m actually following you though.

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you can do it in 2 ways:

  1. add cache rules, that allow you to set what to cache and what not
    proxy config

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  2. create list of addresses you want to cache and only that forward transparently to your proxy
    address list + nat