No web-proxy for RB500s?

RouterOS General
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We just got our first RB532, and discovered that there is apparently no web-proxy subsystem for it.

Upgraded it to RC6-ns, and it’s still not there, nor is it in a seperate .npk like GPS or UPS.

On the x86 version, it is there.

Any ideas where to find it, or when it will be included?

2

If I am not mistaken, web-proxy requires a separate second hard drive connected to the system for it to operate…

Hitek

3

you would be nuts to run a rb board for a web proxy server . need alot more power to have anything worth wild.

also rb board cannot support a hard drive

Randy

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/ip proxy

should work.

5

NORMIS

would you recommend putting ip proxy on a rb board . isnt it going to put the router under more usage . or is this ok . i was told that it was not recommend for a using proxy on ?

trying to get the fact correct.

Randy

6

yes, but we do not want to restrict the user. it is the administrator of the router who decides how he is going to build his network. the choice is yours. maybe someone has a small network and such proxy will be of no problem.

7

I think I read somewhere that a CF mini hard drive(or CF card) installed in the CF slot on the RB532 could be used as an secondary drive to the NAND storage…

8

you won’t be able to use it. plus, the proxy that comes with RB500 doesn’t have a cache function. it will maybe be added later. the proxy that comes with RB500 is made by mikrotik and is something new.

9

The new proxy will work just fine for what I need it for (filtering, no cache). I just had not noticed it before.

I’m not woried about the load, this one is only going to be handling about 5 light users. I would usually use an el-cheapo consumer grade junk router for a network this size, but this particular customer wanted to allow access only to a few webpages, and not others on the same servers (so using firewall to control access would be difficult, but proxy works great).

I see that the x86 version has both /ip web-proxy, and /ip proxy, will that remain the case, or will you be switching entirely to the new one?

–Eric

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probably we will make the new one fully functional and then switch to that entirely

11

Thanks, that answers that.