I believe that is correct, I also believe that connection sharing is a fancy way of using a proxy. I could be wrong but I don't think so.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:redhat-list- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Flier > Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 5:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Comcast & Routing > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Second, maybe this is just semantics, but you do not need a proxy > server. (did you mean connection sharing?) A proxy catches web > requests and checks to see if it already has the page in its cache. > This will speed up web access in some situations enormously but I've > never thought the it was worthwhile for one or two people. > > > Maybe I'm delusional, but I thought setting up a proxy server (like > squid) and allowing access to my Windoze box would allow me to surf > the > web from the Windoze box without having to set up IP masquerading. > Assuming I have the 2 machines plugged into a hub (I do already have a > hub) and the uplink of the hub goes to the cable modem, and the 2 > machines are via private IP LAN, I could configure my browser to > retrieve web pages from the proxy server (the RH box), which would go > out and get the web page off the Internet and send it to the Windoze > browser. No? > > Lee > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
