From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 13:55:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03391 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:55:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-02.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.102]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03378 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA16050; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:54:38 -0400 Message-Id: <199608202054.QAA16050@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 From: Branson Matheson To: Tony Jones cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unregistered IP/proxy? question In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 08:43:52 PDT." <199608201543.IAA06668@seagull.rtd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:54:36 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- 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?