Re: Internet via Proxy-Server?

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.199810111523.PAA18889@hermes.germany.net>,
Norbert Nemec <nobbi@cheerful.com> wrote:
>Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a
>client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing
>that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great
>thing, not to have to configuring every single program you want to use.

I think you want to look into IP-masquerading, aka NAT. It rewrites
the addresses of your local LAN to the address of the gateway
transparently, so that you can use most applications in a normal
way. From the outside world it looks like all connections come from
the firewall/gateway.

Transparant proxying is an optimization in that you can redirect
all connections to port 80 of any outside-server to pass through
a caching proxy, so that you get the benefits of a proxy cache without
configuring the client to use the caching proxy. I mentioned port
80 because this is done in most cases for web traffic only (not
much use in caching telnet sessions)

Mike.
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