I use DEBIAN so it may be slightly different than novell. What I did was setup
one PC running Linux on the network that can get outside the firewall and has a
fixed IP address. It is running APT-PROXY and has the addresses of the DEBIAN
servers. All the other machines are set up so when they do an APT-GET to
download a fix they only know about my APT-PROXY machine. That way fixes are
only sent over the internet one time. The fixes are distributed to all the
internal machines from an internal machine. This is much faster. The machine
installing a fix get it over our gigabit Ethernet instead of going out over the
internet.

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My security group will not allow me to use a proxy to get out to the new
novell server at https://you.novell.com <https://you.novell.com/> . They
are telling me to set up a patch server and not go thru yast online
update.



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Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
Pager: (405) 690-1828
email:  stevef%doc.state.ok.us

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