Smoothwall Cloud Filter Secret Knock with Non-Transparent Proxy

[SpaceInvader83]

Hi all,

 

Is using the secret knock possible with a Non-Transparent Proxy does anyone know?

 

If not what would you recommend?

 

Thanks

[ibpalle]

The secret knock is for the transparent proxy - when you tell the client specifically to use the proxy, it has no effect. What's the use case? However, the secret knock will still work for anything excluded from being proxied.

[SpaceInvader83]

Thanks for the reply, I thought as much, we have a vlan shared with a number of other non chromebook devices but we don't use a non-transparent proxy, the best course of action would be to change this to a transparent proxy presumably? Or add an additional vlan just for these Chromebooks and use transparent to remove the need for the secret knock altogether?

[ibpalle]

The secret knock is only required when you are using the cloud filtering extension on Chrome or Win-books - it's there to prevent double filtering of system already being filtered by the cloud filter extension. You can easily have non cloud filtered devices and cloud filtered devices on the same network behind a transparent proxy. Adding a 2nd VLAN is not really needed.