I want to make a caching machine using mikrotik as a transparent web proxy bridge between the main cisco router and the clients. the Mikrotik box will have two interfaces bridged together.one connected to CISCO and the other to DSLAMS.

can this be done ?? and if yes how to dothis with detaild explaination please..????

http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/ip/webproxy

Works very well. Use the additional freatures of MT for bandwidth control also... Then get rid of the "C" box! :)

Mike

I'm still confused..
do I have to put a default gateway on the mikrotik pointing to CISCO router or just enable web proxy and add firewall rule to redirect to port 8080??

I want to do this:

-build mikrotik box with two interfaces bridged together
-add IP to the bridge (just to manage the Mikrotik-
-enable web-proxy with transparent mode
-add firewall rule to redirect traffic to port 80

do I miss any thing else??

my goal is to sell caching machines to ISPs so I want the box to work on any network without any configurations. I mean if one ISP sell his box to another one the other one could use the box without any modification - like IP addresses or default gateways .... I want it to be like a switch just plug and play.

Yes this is interesting. Would appreciate to know if some one tried the transparent web cache feature.

Yes, just that easy. Use a "real" HD for the cache, not flash...

Mike