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From: Steve Bevan <ee91svb@brunel.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Proxy Server for FreeBSD
Date: 19 May 1995 01:45:48 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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I am thinking of implementing a (very) small network, and want to be
able to use Netscape from any machine on the network. However, in
order to keep costs down, I will only have one internet address allocated
for the gateway machine (running FreeBSD). I intend to run all 
internet utilities by telnet prompt from machines in a Windows 
environment running Winsock or something similar.  The internet provider 
will not provide any source routing on the network (for the price I can 
afford anyway), and so running any gateway software is out.

Is there any proxy server packages which will allow me to do this?
At all times the package needs to remain invisible to the internet 
provider, so I assume I use dumb internet addresses for the
other machines. I have little experience in FreeBSD so any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Bevan