Lightspeed Rocket - How to access local address

[bodminman]

Hi there,

 

Does anyone know how to bypass the Lightspeed Rocket to access internal addresses?

 

Ie: I want to access some printer configs via the browser but instead of getting the relevant printer page I'm getting Bing search results for the internal ip!?!

 

Thanks

[Admiral208]

Proxy exceptions?

[CyberNerd]

Proxy exceptions?

 

It's not a proxy server, it's a effectively a bridge that does deep packet inspection.

 

I'm interested to know the answer though as I've been looking at lightspeed with interest.

[Gaz]

Are you typing http:// before the ip address? it may help otherwise the bing search engine from the address bar will just treat it as a search.

[foofighterjim]

It's not a proxy server, it's a effectively a bridge that does deep packet inspection.

 

I'm interested to know the answer though as I've been looking at lightspeed with interest.

 

I think what Admiral208 means is that you would still need to add these addresses in to the bypass proxy server for local address list in the browser, as you would for any proxy type environment. Otherwise the browser will assume you are referencing an external IP.

[CyberNerd]

I think what Admiral208 means is that you would still need to add these addresses in to the bypass proxy server for local address list in the browser, as you would for any proxy type environment. Otherwise the browser will assume you are referencing an external IP.

 

That wasn't my understanding of how Lightspeed works. I don't have one in place but from what I've seen from the sales speak/literature no connections are proxied so there is no need to have any exceptions.

[foofighterjim]

I think you are right in the fact that it isn't actually a proxy, maybe I have misunderstood how this would work for internal address. In which case I am in the same boat as yourself and the OP.

 

Is this of any help: http://wiki.lightspeedsystems.com/display/suite/Proxy+Server

Edited October 24, 2013 by foofighterjim

[glen_j]

we have lightspeed and have no issues connecting to local printers etc via their ip address in the browser. we have no exceptions for local addresses in internet explorer.

[Admiral208]

It's not a proxy server, it's a effectively a bridge that does deep packet inspection.

 

I'm interested to know the answer though as I've been looking at lightspeed with interest.

 

I know its not a proxy. I've got one here myself. What I was saying is that regardless of if have a light speed or not, if you are trying to navigate to a local IP address and its taking you to the internet, adding a proxy exception should resolve the problem.

Edited October 24, 2013 by Admiral208

[SchoolsBroadband]

Hi there,

 

Does anyone know how to bypass the Lightspeed Rocket to access internal addresses?

 

Ie: I want to access some printer configs via the browser but instead of getting the relevant printer page I'm getting Bing search results for the internal ip!?!

 

Thanks

 

 

 

There's an IP ignore list on the rocket. Suggest you put it in there. This should only matter if you are using the client install.

 

Thanks

 

Dave

[bodminman]

Sorry for the late response.

 

This was a weird one that actually just started working about 45 minutes after me posting this call!

 

Thanks for the suggestions though.

 

And by the way, after more testing I'm so glad we chose the Lightspeed now.

 

The product is good, the support is fantastic and all at what I consider to be a realistic price!!!

Edited October 24, 2013 by bodminman

[hawc]

Here is another solution. Try and edit the hosts file in windows and point the ip address to the ip address of the printers concerned

[Edu-IT]

Sorry for the late response.

 

This was a weird one that actually just started working about 45 minutes after me posting this call!

 

Thanks for the suggestions though.

 

And by the way, after more testing I'm so glad we chose the Lightspeed now.

 

The product is good, the support is fantastic and all at what I consider to be a realistic price!!!

Are you using the client out of interest?

[bodminman]

On the domain clients yes but the BYOD's are accing via the authentication screen.

[IrritableTech]

The lightspeed shouldn't be getting in the way at all as previously stated.

 

It sounds like it was a local routing issue, or a browser not correctly determining the protocol correctly. Any chance it is http/https traffic over a none standard port? If it was, always ensure you type http:// eg. http://10.1.2.3:9191

 

We use the lightspeed client on 450 PC's and 20 Macs - if you had any questions @Edu-IT ?

[Gaz]

It sounds like it was a local routing issue, or a browser not correctly determining the protocol correctly. Any chance it is http/https traffic over a none standard port? If it was, always ensure you type http:// eg. http://10.1.2.3:9191

[/MENTION] ?

 

Like I said. ^^ I think the bing search from the address bar is the issue, I've experienced the same and I use smoothwall.

[Edu-IT]

None, yet! But I may do when I come round to setting up the Rocket which will be soon.