[21373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Proxy server - Was Re: ARIN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Thu Nov 12 15:34:25 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 15:10:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@robotics.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981112094712.034871d8@pop.eurekanet.com>
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Mike Pistone wrote:
> Although I am almost NEVER one to recommend a Microsoft product BUT MS
> Proxy server is actually a very nice product. You can assign a /29 or /30
> (I usually give them a /29 since I assign /29's to home dsl connections and
> I have the network already subnetted). On the other side of the proxy you
> can use private IP's and it will do the translation automaticly or you can
> use IPX/SPX and it will automaticly function as a IPX to IP gateway. I
> don't think there is a proxy client for Unix (any flavor of unix) but they
> do have W95/98, W31 and mac.
I have ran into problems when you need to shove more then a few megs of
data through it, but most home users don't run into that problem. :-) If
you run a unix box you can run natd and firewall for a nice proxy
solution.
> -Mike
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