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Re: Household proxy



On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote:

> Jay D. Winks wrote:
> > 
> > I have researched a few different distributions and found Debian to be
> > the best-documented of the group, and that's important to me. My mates
> > and I seek only to inplement a household proxy for concurrent connection
> > to the 'Net at the moment, but we will doubtless want to do more in the
> > future. Does anyone know a good way under Debian to set up a  proxy that
> > 2 windogs clients and a macinslosh client can share locally? Please
> > reply to ntmstr@mindspring.com
> > 
> Try the squid package. This is IMO the most widely used proxy.
> On my System it works fine.

This is probably a dumb question, but exactly what is proxy, how does it
differ from IP masquerading and why would one use it instead of IP masq?

Bob

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