From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 6: 4:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stelesys.com (www.stelesys.com [208.177.187.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E51DE37B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 06:04:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerry@stelesys.com) Received: from jbell (client109096.atl.mediaone.net [24.31.109.96]) (authenticated) by stelesys.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f74D6p256967; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:06:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerry@stelesys.com) Message-ID: <00f001c11ce6$5dcce750$0a01a8c0@jbell> From: "Jerry Bell" To: "faisal gillani" , References: <20010804124101.18257.qmail@web11004.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: proxy server Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:07:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Filter-Version: 1.3 (www.stelesys.com) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There's two ways to do it: Compile and install squid (/usr/ports/www/squid24). Follow the docs on configuring it. Either change the web browser settings of each computer on your network to point to the squid box, or set up another BSD box (or the same) as a firewall to transparently divert outbound port 80 traffic to the proxy. I believe squid's home page and mailing list archive's have a lot more info. Jerry http://www.syslog.org > I want to setupup a proxy server on my FreeBSD box for > my company ... > i was thinking that what are my alternatives ? > i have a slow connection so i need lots of cashing .. > no firewall needed cause wont be using system for > hosting > & will use a dinamic ip ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message