From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 6:39:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CA737B427 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:39:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (shell.core.com [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g2JEd0534881 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:39:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (raiden@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) with ESMTP id g2JEcxR18492 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:38:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:38:59 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake X-X-Sender: raiden@shell.core.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proxy Server Settings In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, uh, one thing I forgot. I'm needing the computer to be able to surf the web from the console, not Xwindows. I'm fine in Xwindows, because I just set the proxy in Netscape and I'm fine. But I'm stuck if I have to surf from the console or ftp from there. That's the part that has me stuck. On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Steven Lake wrote: > Ok, this is something I'm curious of and after looking around on > the net and through the handbook, I can't find where to do this. I know > it was brought up once before, but never sufficiently answered. > > What I'm wanting to do is to use my laptop behind the firewall > with FreeBSD running rather than windows 2000. I have my machine set to > dual boot, but it makes it a pain to have to boot to 2000 to get info off > the net, then boot to fbsd to do my work. At several of our locations our > lan's are hidden behind proxy servers and the only way to get on the web > is to set the proxy server in the browser and ftp client settings. > > What I want to know is how do I manually specify the proxy server > for the lan in question that I'm working on during any given day so that I > can just stay in fbsd and surf for info while doing my work? > > I know how to specify the IP and all that manually via rc.conf, > but would I do much the same thing for manually specifying a proxy server? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message