From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 1 13:29:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5154C37B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46FD43E13 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g61KT8xi080823; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:29:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:29:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brett Rogers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic detection of a proxy server Message-ID: <20020701202908.GA64411@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200207011327.44525.loki_bsd@cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207011327.44525.loki_bsd@cox.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jul 01), Brett Rogers said: > I have set up a FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE box at my school to show my > professor different aspects of FreeBSD. I really wanted to show him > the ports collection since he's used to rpms. My problem is that I > cannot get out to the internet at all. It operates correctly in the > internal network (I set up an FTP server and it works fine as does > telnet) I know there is a proxy server somewhere, but I dont know > what the address is or anything else about it. All the Windows boxes > detect it just fine and he's said none of the linux boxes he's used > have had problems. What can I do to make FreeBSD detect it? I am > using DHCP to obtain IP, DNS, etc. Any help would be greatly > appreciated. A quick way would be to go to a windows box, and go to http://www2.simflex.com/ip.shtml . Or google for "your ip address is" and use one of the other sites that do the same thing. This will tell you the IP of the proxy, but depending on how your school's network is set up, it night not help. They may have a list of IP numbers or MAC addresses that are allowed to use the Internet. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message