Requirements for SWG in single leg proxy deployment

Products

• Web Gateway

Issue/Introduction

You deployed Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) appliance in INLINE mode in a single leg proxy deployment. You seek best practices for configuring SWG for best performance and effectiveness.

Resolution

Here are the required configuration and cable connection in order for inline
SWG to work properly with single leg proxy server.

1. Create a policy to ignore all traffic from proxy server
2. Create a policy to not NTLM auth proxy server
3. Add proxy server to SWG server list
4. Connect SWG LAN port to proxy server, WAN port to Ethernet switch