Advanced Features; Proxy Relay - SonicWALL TELE3 SP Administrator's Manual

8 Advanced Features

This chapter describes the SonicWALL Advanced Features, such as Web Proxy
Forwarding, and One-to-One NAT. The Advanced Features can be accessed in the
Advanced section of the SonicWALL Web Management interface.There are five tabs in the
Advanced section:
•

Proxy Relay

• Intranet
• Routes
• One-to-One NAT
• Ethernet
Proxy Relay
Web Proxy Forwarding
A Web proxy server intercepts HTTP requests and determines if it has stored copies of the
requested Web pages. If it does not, the proxy completes the request to the server on the
Internet, returning the requested information to the user and also saving it locally for future
requests.
Setting up a Web proxy server on a network can be cumbersome, because each computer on
the network must be configured to direct Web requests to the server.
If you have a proxy server on your network, instead of configuring each computer to point to
the proxy server, you can move the server to the WAN and enable Web Proxy Forwarding.
The SonicWALL automatically forwards all Web proxy requests to the proxy server without
requiring all the computers on the network to be configured.
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