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#! rnews 2083 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.starnet.net!wupost!usenet From: wgd@talx.com Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Proxy Server for FreeBSD Date: 22 May 1995 15:27:48 GMT Organization: TALX Corporation Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3pqahk$493@news.starnet.net> References: <3pgt8c$pjg@izar.brunel.ac.uk> Reply-To: wgd@talx.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.talx.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02 In <3pgt8c$pjg@izar.brunel.ac.uk>, Steve Bevan <ee91svb@brunel.ac.uk> writes: > >I am thinking of implementing a (very) small network, and want to be >able to use Netscape from any machine on the network. However, in >order to keep costs down, I will only have one internet address allocated >for the gateway machine (running FreeBSD). I intend to run all >internet utilities by telnet prompt from machines in a Windows >environment running Winsock or something similar. The internet provider >will not provide any source routing on the network (for the price I can >afford anyway), and so running any gateway software is out. > >Is there any proxy server packages which will allow me to do this? >At all times the package needs to remain invisible to the internet >provider, so I assume I use dumb internet addresses for the >other machines. I have little experience in FreeBSD so any help >would be greatly appreciated. > >Steve Bevan > Steve: I am running FreeBSD2.0 with the CERN HTTPD in proxy configuration. Like yourself, I have little experience with FreeBSD (or even UNIX for that matter). My provider helped me get everything setup. Netscape (and most web browsers) need to be configured to use the proxy and the port the proxy is setup on. For IBMs Web Explorer, I enabled proxy and entered: http://<address of proxy server machine>:<port number> Spyglass Mosaic provided me with a field for the machine address and a seperate one for the port. As for the proxy server itself, the CERN source comes with sample configuration files for proxy mode. Garth Davis wgd@talx.com