proxy server

[Bill Nash]

Start with /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.gz

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Trent Shipley wrote:

> I dislike networking and system administration/configuration.
>
> Nevertheless, sometimes the network/sysadmin option is less hassle than the
> alternative.
>
> Currently I have one land-line.  It provides dial-up internet access and
> normally is connected to my primary workstation, running SuSE.
> Unfortunately, for some sites you just *need* to use Internet Explorer.
> Currently, I unhook the line and plug it into the laptop that runs Windows
> 2000 Pro.
>
> I'd like to just leave the stupid phone like connected to the SuSE machine.
> Unfortunately, I don't know HOW TO set it up as a proxy server (or, for that
> matter, how to get the Windows machine to use the SuSE machine once it is
> configured to proxy-serve my little LAN.)
>
> Any advice on how to learn to setup a Linux proxy server would be much
> appreciated (eg, books, web-pages, even mention of applications and config
> files I'll need to tinker with...).
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