Please anyone explain process How router and proxy server run Pfsense?

[tony77]

Hello Everyone and all Professor. I don't understand with logical of Pfsense when it run route and proxy server in the same physical. Like : Pfsense firewall it can do route, So i use it as my router and my proxy server in one Pfsense physical hardware. So question is that How about logical did Router is stand in front of Proxy server,or Proxy server is stand in front of router? Please explain me about this? I'm really miss understand with this? [spam was here]

[johnpoz]

I think maybe you would have better discussion in your native language section..

Proxy is just an application/service just like any other be it dhcp, dns, ssh, httpd... it listens on an IP, and then does something with something that talks to it on the port its listening on.. Proxy normally listens on 3128... So client can directly send traffic to the proxy.

Or you can do transparent mode where firewall listens for traffic on say port 80, and then sends it to the proxy port..

Pfsense is not a hardware firewall/router running a very limited IOS sort of OS, like a cisco or juniper or something... It is customized version of freebsd OS, to be easy to use/manage firewall/router - and yes is can provide other services like IDS, dns, dhcp, Proxy, etc.