From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 23:04:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7681916A405 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 23:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341B113C487 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 23:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hop1C-0000ZB-2M for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:22 +0200 Received: from r5j156.net.upc.cz ([86.49.9.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:22 +0200 Received: from gamato by r5j156.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:04 +0200 Lines: 21 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5j156.net.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061111 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 Sender: news Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: configuring network connection via proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 23:04:31 -0000 Hello, I need to plug my company laptop in to different networks many of which make use of some sort of proxy for accessing the internet. And every time I face this challenge of changing connection settings of different applications in many places. This is of course very inconvenient. What I would like to be able to do is to change the connection settings regarding a proxy in one place and have it affect all my applications. Something like one can do in MS Windows via Internet Options (configuring proxy access). I checked our otherwise great Handbook but failed to find something covering this scenario. And I'm surprised as I expect this to be a rather common need. Have I missed something ? Could someone point me to any article covering my need please ? TIA, Martin PS: Yes, I tried to google for this but I wasn't successful or perhaps I just asked wrong questions. :(