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Aaron Siegel <aaron-siegel@bresnan.net> writes:

> I am currently helping a fellow user, Rommel B. Ikeda r_ikeda@oisca.org.  He 
> is have problems getting is computer to connect to the internet through a 
> Window 2000 proxy server.  I only have experience with NAT.  I do not expect 
> someone to solve our problem just point me to the correct documents (feel 
> free to solve the problem if you like).

Proxies have to be handled on an application-by-application basis.
Unlike that abomination of networking called NAT, they need intimate
knowledge of the protocols being passed through them.