Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:13:57 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configuring network connection via proxy Message-ID: <20070519001357.490b5832@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <f2in14$gos$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <f2in14$gos$1@sea.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 18 May 2007 01:04:04 +0200 martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> wrote: > 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. The traditional way is through environmental variables, but lot of GUI applications wont respect them, and it wouldn't work smoothly without a reboot anyway. I would suggest you use some kind of local proxy, either a full caching http level proxy like squid, or a simple TCP redirection. You can then point your apps at a localhost port, and just reconfigure the proxy. Take a look at the www and net ports for proxies. A lot of applications support automatic proxy discovery, which might be an alternative.
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