# Why does the tunneler not support the proxy tunnel mode?

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**Category:** Ziti Overlay\
**Created:** [February 14, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/why-does-the-tunneler-not-support-the-proxy-tunnel-mode/1085 "2023-02-14T21:29:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChristianAnton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openziti.discourse.group/christiananton/32/747_2.png) [@ChristianAnton](https://openziti.discourse.group/u/ChristianAnton)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:54pm UTC](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/why-does-the-tunneler-not-support-the-proxy-tunnel-mode/1085/13 "2023-04-04T18:54:07Z")

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Thank you all for the very helpful explanations and clarifications. That all makes things quite a lot more clear to me.

I have tried the Kubernetes Sidecar proxy setup as explained in the docs and unfortunately also stumbled a bit. There is a problem with newer versions of alpine that makes the concept not to work anymore as intended. I have opened a new thread on that, but for completeness, here’s what i found: [Tproxy mode as sidecar container not working with alpine \>=3.13](https://openziti.discourse.group/t/tproxy-mode-as-sidecar-container-not-working-with-alpine-3-13/1187).

Cheers

Christian

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