Thank you very much for your responce Jim.  Things are working well now.

have a great day,
greg





On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jim Pingle <li...@pingle.org> wrote:

> On 8/17/2011 4:32 PM, greg whynott wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed a fresh copy of 2.0-RC3 for a client to segergate the
> > vm sandbox enviroment.   We are not using NAT,  rather just routing.
> > My intention was to configure some basic fw rules afterwards.
> >
> > During the setup, I turned off NAT via the "disable firewall" option
> > (system-advanced-firewall/nat tab).
> >
> > I enabled transparent proxy but it does not appear to be working.  the
> > access log and cache dir are not growing.
> >
> > do i need the firewall turned on for the redirect to work?   if so can i
> > have the firewall on and nat off?
>
> You must use pf/NAT for transparent proxy to work. It's really just a
> port forward behind the scenes that directs the outgoing web traffic
> into the proxy.
>
> You can disable outbound NAT (what you wanted) without disabling the
> firewall. Just switch to manual outbound NAT, save, and then delete any
> rules that show up. If you're on manual outbound NAT and no rules match
> the traffic, no NAT happens.
>
> Jim
>
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