With rules written as is you are forwarding all traffic from the 10.10.1.73/32 to 10.10.1.56. I'm assuming 10.10.1.56 is your squid proxy. What port is squid listening on? Right now your users on the 10.10.1.73/32 subnet are trying to talk to the server with default ports (80) etc. You need to setup...

I have an external proxy for my users as well. In this post I listed a few things i manged to do in order to redirect my users to the proxy server transparently. You do not have to use the build in web proxy on the mikrotik device. In my case I didn't want to spend the extra CPU power on my mikrotik...

I've been digging through several guides as to "How to protect your router" etc. Most of the examples show to open the required ports and drop everything else. The one configuration line i don't understand is this one: /ip firewall filter add chain=input protocol=udp action=accept comment=...

I found a better way to handle netflix traffic. The address list is fine, but after more digging i found a way to dynamically generate the list. This guide shows a queueing system for prioritizing or throttling video sites. I took his example and made it fit into my proxy forwarding solution. I'm st...

I use an external squid transparent proxy for my clients. We recently switched to a RouterOS firewall and I discovered a great way to route traffic to my proxy without having to configure each client's proxy settings. I dug around on the internet and found this lovely guide that describes pretty clo...