From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 7 12:48:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23865 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:48:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23842 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 12:48:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA19276; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:02:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA03673; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 13:01:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809071201.NAA03673@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Stevenson Ang cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting a FreeBSD client to the internet using win NT proxy server In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Sep 1998 13:39:37 +0800." <35F37199.9C0A62E9@webquest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 13:01:53 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello there, > > I am trying to connect my FreeBSD machine to the internet but I don't > know how. All the documentation that I have read so far deals with > connecting your machine to the internet using a dial-in PPP connection. > But our LAN is connected to the internet using a Win NT proxy server > (Winproxy ver. 2.0 specifically). Does anybody have any suggestions or > recommended readings on how I can solve this problem? AFAIK, the best you can do is to set HTTP_PROXY in your environment. This will give you access via ftp & fetch. You can also fill in the proxy page in netscape if you're using that. I doubt if anything else is proxied by the NT box. > Thank you in advance. > Stevenson Ang (FreeBSD newbie) -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message