From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 01:29:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA14678 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA14657 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:29:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA14390; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:28:06 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma014385; Sun Oct 27 10:27:52 1996 Message-ID: <32731CE4.1B7D@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 10:27:16 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" CC: Robert Burns , questions@freebsd.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wingate Equivalent for FreeBSD ???? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Robert Burns wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > How do you get lan workstations to connect to the internet through a > > UNIX box connected to an ISP with ppp. The workstations are all using > > internal TCP/IP address. > > > > I know a package exists for Win95 but can this be done on a unix box? > > I'm sure it can be done but how? > > Depends on what apps need to talk to the Internet. If you're looking at > MS Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 1.2 or later, install the > socks port. This is the only way I know to proxy SSL connections. If you > need to proxy ftp, fwtk is the way to go, as most win FTP programs don't > grok socks. I use a mix of both on my home network. There is a smal ad-on to the fwtk that will proxy SSL connections as well. It's called ssl-gw (and there is a patched version called ssl-gw2). I don't remember where I got it (perhaps pointers in the SSLeay page) but I'd bet a search on ssl-gw will get you there. Nadav