From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 8:54:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E4137B533 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA86262; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:52:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <3992CFB2.F0E5AB0E@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:52:18 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: John Turner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MS Proxy References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell wrote: > > > MS Proxy server (or any proxy server) doesn't care what sort of client is > > sending it TCP packets. Just configure the FreeBSD box to use the proxy's > > internal address as the default gateway and you should be good to go. > > It use to matter... did this recently (finally?) get changed? > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Depends on the proxy service, I may be wrong here, but MS Proxy not just an http/ftp proxy server? You seem to be eluding that MS Proxy service wiill act as a TCP/IP gateway... as in NATD. It doesn't last I checked, MS Proxy would be more comperable to SQUID no? In which case the setup would be browser side. You could however setup a local firewall on the FreeBSD box to hijack all it's outgoing http/ftp ports and send their request to the proxy. I still tend to agree with those of you who said to use the FreeBSD box as a gateway. Point being, there is a BIG difference between a gateway and a proxy service. Gateway is tcp/ip, and is not neccessarily cached whereas most proxy services also run some sort of cache. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message