Web Proxy

ucheonyeaka · January 30, 2006, 4:18pm

Hi guys,

I want to do some caching using Router Board 532 with two SR5 cards. Please has anyone tried this and what was the result?

Thanks in advance

Uche

blankman · January 31, 2006, 4:38am

Not sure that is the best idea … everything will have to be writen to CF which is slow, so I am guessing you don’t want to do that … though … I suppose it will work. Also, the web proxy in the rb hardware code (home grown) is different than the web proxy in the none rb (modified squid i heard).

ucheonyeaka · January 31, 2006, 1:12pm

I plan to use Microdrive hard drive

ucheonyeaka · January 31, 2006, 9:34pm

Guys,

I assume nobody has tried this yet. But experts what do you think?

-Uche

HarvSki · February 1, 2006, 1:34pm

The Proxy on the RouterBoard 500 is not a caching proxy.

Jrslick22 · February 2, 2006, 9:27pm

web-proxy is an additional package which when installed…still doesn’t work?? well i cant find any other traces of web-poxy apart from listing installed packages, any ideas??

HarvSki · February 2, 2006, 9:46pm

look from the command line

Jrslick22 · February 2, 2006, 9:51pm

Nope not there, assuming its still found under ip>web-proxy

HarvSki · February 2, 2006, 10:05pm

I would think so, you can try IP then press TAB twice to see the options

cibernet · February 5, 2006, 9:13am

web-proxy package is only avaible on x86 instalations of MT, for the RB532 there is web-proxy-test package and you will find it on IP>Proxy

Regards

wisp · February 6, 2006, 3:52pm

Please what is x86 instalations of MT?

cibernet · February 6, 2006, 8:42pm

It´s for regular PC.. example: P4…

Regards

Jrslick22 · February 12, 2006, 1:11am

You cant use proxy for transparent caching though right?

djape · February 12, 2006, 12:37pm

Why can’t you just upload a web-proxy package and reboot?
After that you can configure transparent web-proxy and do redirection in dst-nat.
Someone correct me if I missed something.

blankman · February 20, 2006, 4:51am

So, from the MuM, it seemed that the web-proxy for RB was a new “re-write” from MT. That is they are writing it from “scratch” … thus is isn’t so stable. The web-proxy on the x86 is actaully some squid derived system. Lastely, you could always make your “own” transparent web proxy as djape said:

After that you can configure transparent web-proxy and do redirection in dst-nat.
Someone correct me if I missed something.

You can simply grab all the traffic that is coming through the forward rules and send them to your own squid server. Then special case the squid server so that it can actaully get out.