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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:07:54 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Brett Rogers <loki_bsd@cox.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: automatic detection of a proxy server
Message-ID:  <20020701210754.GA38502@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200207011410.44278.loki_bsd@cox.net>
References:  <200207011327.44525.loki_bsd@cox.net> <20020701202908.GA64411@dan.emsphone.com> <200207011410.44278.loki_bsd@cox.net>

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In the last episode (Jul 01), Brett Rogers said:
> On Monday 01 July 2002 01:29 pm, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Assuming I do get the IP of the proxy server, where would I put it in my 
> configuration files?

These are all I've ever had to set:

HTTP_PROXY=proxyserver:port
ftp_proxy=http://proxyserver:port/
http_proxy=http://proxyserver:port/

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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