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Network Security with pfSense
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Network Security with pfSense

by Manuj Aggarwal
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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Testing the Squid proxy server

Back in the Windows 7 client machine, let's confirm the IP address for this client machine. Launch the Command Prompt window and execute ipconfig:

Here, the IP address of this machine is 192.168.1.2. If you check, you will see that this client machine can connect to the internet. 

You did not have to make any special configuration for assigning a proxy server to this browser. And, the reason why that is working is because of the setup. The Squid proxy server has been configured as a transparent proxy.

Let's switch to the pfSense webConfigurator in the ACLs section for the Squid proxy server. When you scroll down, ...

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