You can bypass the proxy.  The box is asking if there is a SOCKS proxy or
something like that.  Many cable providers have HTTP proxys and that's
about it.  They can, if they wanted to, make you use the proxy, which you
would enter into your browser and not your modem/router.  They would block
connections to anywhere with a destination port 80 on their firewall
except from the proxy box.  But they usually don't.

I have a cable modem at a place I stay at in Dallas and you are supposed
to use a http proxy buy I never do and it works.

-e

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, tack wrote:

> hey all,
>
> does anybody know of any cable modem setting quirks?  I will be migrating
> from dsl to cable (excite@home).  The box that's currently on the cable
> connection is a mac using a static IP.  Can I just copy that info or do I
> have to run some screwy app to connect as well.
>
> Also, there's a "proxy:" proxy defined in the client apps on that box.  Is
> this necessary, or can I just ignore the proxy.  Anybody tried?
>
> tack
>

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