Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:54:36 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Tony Jones <tony@rtd.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unregistered IP/proxy? question Message-ID: <199608202054.QAA16050@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:43:52 PDT." <199608201543.IAA06668@seagull.rtd.com>
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-------- Tony Jones uttered with conviction: > >Typical setup, FreeBSD system connecting to an ISP over PPP (currently >kernel PPP). > > My wife wants to be able to surf the net using her Mac. Thus i'm > going to hook > ... blah ... > translating proxy on my FreeBSD system . > > However, this is all theory and I've never done anything like this > before, so I was curious if this is the best approach ? I would suggest instead using somthing like cached, an web/ftp proxy which is a part of the harvest distribution. It allows your wife's mac to use your unix box as a proxy and go out on the net... even download.. I support about 30 people using my proxy here. Checkout : http://excalibur.usc.edu/ -branson -- ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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