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    • K
      klajosh2
      last edited by

      Hi All,

      Is there any risk/drawback or will it raise any problem if I  use pfsense in my network just for SQUID (just for proxy)?
      So only the http/https traffic would hit the firewall other traffic would use a different path. There is a plan to use WCCP
      (transparanet) proxy configuration as well.

      thank you for your comments,

      klajosh

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        While pfSense can do the job, if you're only looking for a proxy server then I don't know why you wouldn't just spin up some Linux/*BSD instance with Squid if that's all you need.  I don't know if pfSense support WCCB.  There were some forum posts about it, but nothing solid.

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        • K
          klajosh2
          last edited by

          Hi,

          linux + squid would be the second option. I like pfsense and how it maintains packages and I like to solid webinterface of pfsense.
          Let's make a note here: I do not want that feature that pfsense use wccp to redirect web requests to a proxy server
          (not even to itself). I would like to use pfsense as proxy only. Small network diagram:

          users|--http-->|default-gw|--wccp-->|pfsense-with-squid|--http-request-->|firewall|--http_request-->|internet
          

          So my question is: is pfsense's squid package able to handle connections using wccp.

          thanks,

          klajosh

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            pfSense can be your proxy server for sure, but I don't have any knowledge about the WCCP side of things.

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              klajosh2
              last edited by

              Thanks!
              I hope others have experience regarding this.

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