You don't need eth-proxy it just happened to be the configuration I was testing at the moment. to see if the average shares per hour went up on the pool for all my rigs combined.
If I recall correctly I am running on the pre-release version, though, very similar if not the same results on the last Release build
RE: ETHEREUM Hashrate: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 August 2017