Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:38:59 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proxy Server Settings Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203190837460.16473-100000@shell.core.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44L0.0203190819090.16473-100000@shell.core.com>
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Ok, uh, one thing I forgot. I'm needing the computer to be able to surf the web from the console, not Xwindows. I'm fine in Xwindows, because I just set the proxy in Netscape and I'm fine. But I'm stuck if I have to surf from the console or ftp from there. That's the part that has me stuck. On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Steven Lake wrote: > Ok, this is something I'm curious of and after looking around on > the net and through the handbook, I can't find where to do this. I know > it was brought up once before, but never sufficiently answered. > > What I'm wanting to do is to use my laptop behind the firewall > with FreeBSD running rather than windows 2000. I have my machine set to > dual boot, but it makes it a pain to have to boot to 2000 to get info off > the net, then boot to fbsd to do my work. At several of our locations our > lan's are hidden behind proxy servers and the only way to get on the web > is to set the proxy server in the browser and ftp client settings. > > What I want to know is how do I manually specify the proxy server > for the lan in question that I'm working on during any given day so that I > can just stay in fbsd and surf for info while doing my work? > > I know how to specify the IP and all that manually via rc.conf, > but would I do much the same thing for manually specifying a proxy server? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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