I have successfully set up pppd to log onto my ISP and got the PPP
connection working. I can ping the DNS and browse the WWW pages on my ISP's
server. I now need to set up Linux so that it can send requests to the
ISP's proxy server and gain access to the WWW beyond the proxy server.
I remembered that Netscape had the facility to specify a proxy server and
tried to set that up using the named domain name. Netscape said that the
host didn't exist (I wasn't online at the time), so I put in the numerical
IP address of the proxy server. Netscape accepted this, but when I fired up
pppd and got the connection, it didn't recognise the host.
I presume I now have to set up the details of the proxy server within a
file in /etc or /etc/ppp , but I don't know where to add it.
I've looked at the PPP faq & how-to, Firewall-how-to, IP-masquerade, NAG
etc., but nothing I read seemed to tie in with what I want to do.
Do I also have to set up some sort of socks configuration, or does Netscape
handle this internally?
I'm using a standalone PC and fairly inexperienced with Linux.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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