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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsreader.jvnc.net!lazlo From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas) Subject: Re: PC clients not browsing across FreeBSD PPP link Message-ID: <DpJyu7.I46@tigger.jvnc.net> Sender: news@tigger.jvnc.net (Zee News Genie) Organization: University of the Virgin Islands X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #0 References: <4kb65h$jjb@comet2.magicnet.net> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:49:30 GMT Lines: 19 In article <4kb65h$jjb@comet2.magicnet.net>, dan@init.org (Dan Benjamin) wrote: >I have a FreeBSD box intermittently connected to the net. I have 1 >(and can have only 1) static ip. > >I'd like to allow my PC machines (running Windows 95) to use that PPP >link to browse the web. > >Any advice would be greatly appreciated! > Set up a web server as a proxy on the FreeBSD box and configure the Win95 client browsers to point to that server as their proxy. Some servers can also cache web pages to conserve bandwidth (CERN, Spinner). | John Lucas jlucas@uvi.edu | | Academic Computing NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.uvi.edu/jlucas.html |