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      maartenweyns
      last edited by

      Hi all,

      I've been trying to set up Squid for a couple of days now, following lots of tutorials online. The problem is the following; whenever I try to enable the Squid transparent proxy to actually use Squid, the clients cannot access the internet anymore  :'(. Opening a site results in a timeout error..

      If someone could help me I'd very appreciate that  ;D

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      • marcellocM
        marcelloc
        last edited by

        Squid will use your firewall wan address. Does this ip is able to use internet? Try on console links www.google.com

        Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

        Help a community developer! ;D

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          maartenweyns
          last edited by

          @marcelloc:

          Squid will use your firewall wan address. Does this ip is able to use internet? Try on console links www.google.com

          I enabled the transparent proxy and I was still able to ping 8.8.8.8 from the webui. However, websites do not load.. Only google does..

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            maartenweyns
            last edited by

            Is anyone able to help me with this? :)

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              vielfede
              last edited by

              @maartenweyns:

              Is anyone able to help me with this? :)

              Maybe You had better to give some more details of your configuration:
              tutorial you followed…
              Squid settings...
              Log messages...
              etc...

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                moltrabella
                last edited by

                have you blocked any port? check that the 80 and 443 are open and accesible from the lan to the wan. Have you tried diferent browsers?. have you installed any package?

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                  maartenweyns
                  last edited by

                  @vielfede:

                  @maartenweyns:

                  Is anyone able to help me with this? :)

                  Maybe You had better to give some more details of your configuration:
                  tutorial you followed… Squid settings... Log messages... etc...

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrB2i2btceI&t=916s

                  This is the tutorial I followed.  ::)

                  Squid settings are pretty much default. Only the few setings changed in the video are put the same on my install..

                  @moltrabella:

                  have you blocked any port? check that the 80 and 443 are open and accesible from the lan to the wan. Have you tried diferent browsers?. have you installed any package?

                  No ports are blocked and Firewall in pretty much default as my install is very new. I can access the internet completely without the proxy and if I manually set the proxy it works as well. Only packages installed are Squid, Lightsquid and Squidguard

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                  • marcellocM
                    marcelloc
                    last edited by

                    There are know issues with squid package and pfSense 2.3.4 32 bits.  Is this setup you're using?

                    Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

                    Help a community developer! ;D

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                      maartenweyns
                      last edited by

                      @marcelloc:

                      There are know issues with squid package and pfSense 2.3.4 32 bits.  Is this setup you're using?

                      I'm using Squid 64 bit latest version

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                        vielfede
                        last edited by

                        tutorial seems ok…
                        Did you check the system logs?
                        are services started?

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                          maartenweyns
                          last edited by

                          @vielfede:

                          tutorial seems ok…
                          Did you check the system logs?
                          are services started?

                          The services are started! I'll enable logging of squid and see what it reports once I have time :)

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                            maartenweyns
                            last edited by

                            @vielfede:

                            tutorial seems ok…
                            Did you check the system logs?
                            are services started?

                            Squid only has 3 log files available and they don't seem to tell alot about network traffic.. Here they are anyways: (3 cache log files)

                            cache.log.0.txt
                            cache.log.1.txt
                            cache.log.txt

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