Does the ssg20 do destination NAT? That is the feature you are after - 
alternatively wccp....

Btw - I wouldn't recommend transparent https.


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On 01/05/2012, at 14:08, "Josh Farrelly" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi guys.
>  
> We have a customer who’d like to implement a transparent web proxy 
> configuration using a Sophos Web Appliance. They sit behind an SSG20 that 
> connects them to the Internet. I’m suggesting the proxy will have an IP in 
> the LAN range.
>  
> I’ve confirmed with Sophos that the proxy will correctly handle connections 
> if we policy-route any packets matching a destination port of TCP 80 & 443 to 
> it using the firewall, however I’m a little confused about how the return 
> traffic should be handled.
>  
> I don’t believe the proxy will rewrite the layer 3 address of the packets it 
> sends out, so return traffic back from the external web servers will be 
> (theoretically) sent back to the internal IP address, which is the client 
> directly.
>  
> Does anyone have any experience in implementing this, or any suggestions how 
> we go about returning the traffic to the proxy and not directly to the end 
> client? Any suggestions otherwise? Explicit mode on the proxy is not an 
> option.
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Josh Farrelly
> Senior Project Engineer
> 
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