On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, David Walser wrote: > Hopefully this will be fixed, but one note, if a > company has it set up so that you can *only* access > the web through a proxy, it should be set up as a > transparent proxy. > > It's really easy to do, one way is to make a Linux > bridge, with the bridge-utils package, and the kernel > patch I reference in bug 1019.
And the other was is to redirect port 80 to your proxy server (like SNF does). But remember a lot of companies and other large institutions need to be able to account for bandwidth, and most academic institutions here charge per MB, and you can't do authentication over a transparent proxy. Authentication support in installation for updates would also be cool (thinking to when we may get ADSL, currently the ADSL providers use proxy authentication to cap bandwidth). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
