Transparent Proxy for Kindles - Can smoothwall do it?

[siuko]

Hi,

 

I have been asked to get kindles working at our school.

 

We have an upstream proxy which is required to access anything internet based.

 

I understand (and have read quite a few threads on edugeek) that I require a transparent proxy to allow the kindles to work.

 

I setup Smoothwall Express 3.1 RC3 - the kindles can browse the internet fine - but registering them and downloading books to them does not work.

 

From what I have read Smoothwall Express will not allow https traffic to work (and I believe this is what is stopping the kindles working correctly).

 

Does the full smoothwall software / hardware work correctly with kindles?

 

Any ideas would be helpful - or if the full smoothwall does work correctly could someone from smoothwall contact me please about pricing etc. Taaaaaa

[sultan966]

Hi,

Look at this guide to configure proxy for Kindle

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/netbooks-pda-phones/112000-configuring-proxy-settings-kindle-fire-hd.html

[plexer]

What sort of kindles? keyboard, paperwhite, fire?

 

I'm sure I've read here somewhere that even with a transparent proxy the e-book only ones still don't play nicely.

 

Ben

[siuko]

It was for some Kindle 4's... (about 200!)

 

And I gave up trying as they wanted it doing quickly.... lol

 

I just ordered a separate unfiltered broadband line so the kindles can use that. (Parental locking the kindles so they cannot browse unfiltered internet)

[mavhc]

I used ipcop's transparent firewall, but Notts' 1c1n allows https connections without going through a proxy, so for those connections it works anyway.

 

https://tribut.de/blog/amazon-kindle-and-eduroam/ may be of use to someone