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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: PC clients not browsing across FreeBSD PPP link
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 16:49:30 GMT
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In article <4kb65h$jjb@comet2.magicnet.net>, dan@init.org (Dan Benjamin) wrote:
>I have a FreeBSD box intermittently connected to the net.  I have 1
>(and can have only 1) static ip.
>
>I'd like to allow my PC machines (running Windows 95) to use that PPP
>link to browse the web.
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>

Set up a web server as a proxy on the FreeBSD box and configure the Win95 
client browsers to point to that server as their proxy. Some servers can also 
cache web pages to conserve bandwidth (CERN, Spinner).


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