Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:11:49 -0400 From: "cdf" <cdfergus@hom.net> To: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: using a proxy server Message-ID: <000301bfd66f$10e329e0$4f0aa8c0@ku4oy.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.0.20000614073627.00a959c0@pop-server.san.rr.com>
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Option 3(or whichever) purchase a SOHO dial-up or DSL routers. This will work when you are gone and there is no technical guru to deal with either proxy software(s) or BSD. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Lucas Silacci Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:45 To: Nitebirdz Cc: Hyun Gu Kang; newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using a proxy server > > > > If anyone has used VMware (virtual machine-can emulate your computer on > top > > of your OS so you can run multiple OS at the same time)? Do you think it > > would be possible to somehow install it and run W98 on top of it and run > > that proxy client program to be able to connect to the internet? > > > >Why don't you try getting an old 486, installing FreeBSD on it and setting >it up as an internet gateway to use instead the Win98 box? I understand >you're leaving the place soon, but if it works I see no reason why your >roommates should oppose it... and it certainly does rock on FreeBSD. Just >an idea. I second this motion! I just helped a friend setup a private LAN with only windoze 98 boxes. We attempted to use WinGate, but that failed miserably when we tried to install the client piece on each of the boxes. We finally got the thing working after ripping out WinGate and installing WinProxy instead (that does not require any software installed on the clients), but the whole thing took us six hours to complete (most of that being reboots all over the place!). I tried to convince my friend to get another box and install FreeBSD on it, but he didn't want to invest the time or money on it, plus he's not UNIX-savvy so the learning curve probably would have been a little steep. Anyway, if you don't want to go the FreeBSD route, then I recommend you try and use WinProxy instead of WinGate because it doesn't require any software on the clients and therefore any box you want to install behind the server should work (Win, MAC, or *NIX). The only thing I wonder about is the performance the server (or clients) will see using something like that on Win boxes. Seems like Windows has enough problems loading the GUI sometimes, let alone doing NAT for 4 other windows boxes.... -Lucas -- "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." -- Edgar Allan Poe Lucas Silacci lucas@san.rr.com lucas.silacci@sandiegoca.ncr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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