From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 8 23:26:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24747 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:26:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA24742 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0zGdhf-0001Pg-00; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:26:07 -0700 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:26:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Alastair Rankine cc: Daniel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 In-Reply-To: <35E0A7D700000209@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Alastair Rankine wrote: > Proxy Server 2.0 implements SOCKS4, which you can use from FreeBSD. Check > out socks5 in the ports. It is also a Web proxy server which you can use by > configuring your web client accordingly. > > FWIW FreeBSD makes a _far_ better internet gateway for a small LAN than > does NT. I know, from experience with both. Yep. With NT you start by paying for NT4 and then for Microsoft Proxy Server. It still doesn't proxy (and cache, if appropiate) everything that socks, squid, nntpcache and netpipe could on a FreeBSD server. > Also, this should have been in freebsd-questions, as the above info applies > to 2.2 as well as 3.0. Yep. Posting this followup to freebsd-questions > -- > [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] > [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] > [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message