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Configuring proxy
Hi, just got this switch and was trying to setup proxies on VLAN but couldn't seem to figure it out. So have some questions, how would I go about configuring the switch to run from proxies and is it ...
All Smart Managed Plus switches are plain L2 devices.
The tiny embedded Smart Managed Plus controller does listen to all 80/TCP traffic over all VLAN to operate the Web UI (except e.g. the big XS724EM which does allow restricting the access to a defined VLAN). The controller does have only one IP address.
Needless to say, of course each device connected must have a different IP address.
Not sure what kind of proxy ideas you have in mind...
Is the idea about using the switch in place of a NAT router for connecting mutiple devices to an Internet connection with just one public-side/Internet/WAN-side IP address available? Said that: You can't.
Hi, I think I understand what you mean. I'll try explain more clearly as i'm not exactly experienced in this field. What i'm trying to setup is to have multiple devices connecting to the switch and then be able to have each port using a different proxy so each device connected will have a different public ip address via proxies. Is it possible? Thank you
Two different things:
The switch does allow to connect multiple devices or computers to your LAN (e.g. behind an ISP router). This allows these devices to connect to the Internet.
Each computer can surf the Internet on it's own, you can configure whatever proxy or VPN clients* on the computers (*if the router, ISP, or a great wall is permitting) out there.
This is workable in such a configuration of course.
Re-thinking your request again, do you expect to have multiple VLANs configured connecting to diferent VPN providers or locations? Then each of the computers or routers with "dial-up" VPN capabilities connecting up to these VPNs needs routing feature, probably serving as a NAT router to operate the individual VLANs, too.
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