From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 21:23:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.mia.bellsouth.net (mail1.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD0B837BBD6 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 21:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pineypl@bellsouth.net) Received: from kludge (adsl-61-16-127.mia.bellsouth.net [208.61.16.127]) by mail1.mia.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with SMTP id AAA16991; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:23:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob Collins To: Nathan Vidican , Rick Hamell Subject: Re: MS Proxy Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:32:33 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: John Turner , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3992CFB2.F0E5AB0E@wmptl.com> In-Reply-To: <3992CFB2.F0E5AB0E@wmptl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00081100342802.00627@kludge> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > 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 > > 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/ I have an MS proxy at my office and recently brought one of my FBSD boxes in to do some in-house www testing. I have used the MS proxy serivice to get to the net with FBSD. It does work if need be..... -- Bob Collins MCSE, FreeBSD Fanatic Driving my '95 E36/5 Active >> Sport on the www.InternetCoast.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message