In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Norbert Nemec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anyway, I couldn't find any documentation about using a proxy as a >client within the docs coming with debian. Is using a proxy a thing >that can only b done by the individual programs? It would be a great >thing, not to have to configuring every single program you want to use.
I think you want to look into IP-masquerading, aka NAT. It rewrites the addresses of your local LAN to the address of the gateway transparently, so that you can use most applications in a normal way. From the outside world it looks like all connections come from the firewall/gateway. Transparant proxying is an optimization in that you can redirect all connections to port 80 of any outside-server to pass through a caching proxy, so that you get the benefits of a proxy cache without configuring the client to use the caching proxy. I mentioned port 80 because this is done in most cases for web traffic only (not much use in caching telnet sessions) Mike. -- "Did I ever tell you about the illusion of free will?" -- Sheriff Lucas Buck, ultimate BOFH.