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      reqman
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      Hello all,

      I am interested in pfsense. I want to install a box that acts as a firewalled bridge. That box obviously should have an ip address assigned to it, only for management purposes.

      Question 1: Can pfsense do this?

      If it can, ideally I'd like to setup basically a URL filter on it. Details:

      • I am not interested in HTTP/FTP caching, only interested in the FTP functionality
      • Ideally, I should be able to use the Shalla lists along with squidguard/squid
      • Not interested at all in transparent http. Access to the web will be manually configured on all LAN systems to use the address:port specification that corresponds to the box.
      • For the latter, obviously an ip:port should be allocated on the filtering bridge, strictly for the purposes of proxying

      Question 2: Can the pfsense filtering bridge, do URL filtering with squid/squidguard?

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        dvserg
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        @reqman:

        Hello all,

        I am interested in pfsense. I want to install a box that acts as a firewalled bridge. That box obviously should have an ip address assigned to it, only for management purposes.

        Question 1: Can pfsense do this?

        If it can, ideally I'd like to setup basically a URL filter on it. Details:

        • I am not interested in HTTP/FTP caching, only interested in the FTP functionality
        • Ideally, I should be able to use the Shalla lists along with squidguard/squid
        • Not interested at all in transparent http. Access to the web will be manually configured on all LAN systems to use the address:port specification that corresponds to the box.
        • For the latter, obviously an ip:port should be allocated on the filtering bridge, strictly for the purposes of proxying

        Question 2: Can the pfsense filtering bridge, do URL filtering with squid/squidguard?

        1. The proxy squid/squidguard possible use for http/ftp-over-http. With bridge transparent proxyot work (for this moment). You must setup IP for LAN, if you want use proxy for you clients.
        2. Yes for http/ftp-over-http use non-transparent proxy.

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