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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Matrix Mole wrote:
> > Is this all that's necessary?
>
> I know nothing about Windows, so I don't know if Windows can
> do this.  However, I have done this with Linux.  One machine
> dials and establishes a PPP connection, and the other machines
> route throught that machine (using TCP/IP).
>
I've used a Linux (BL) machine on a Windows network that used Wingate as a
proxy on a Win2K "gateway" machine.  I was able to access the internet
through the proxy.  Note that this was via ADSL modem, rather than dialup
modem.  Traffic to my BL machine from the internet was wildly erratic,
sometimes running at fairly normal ADSL speeds (when doing downloads, for
example), and sometimes seeming to almost freeze.  Traffic flowed much
more normally using IE on the machine that was acting as the proxy.  I was
not able to confirm exactly where the problem lay: could have been some
physical network problem, a punchy NIC on the machine I was using, or some
kind of incompatibility between the Wingate proxy and Linux clients.  You
might want to research this a bit.  Another freeware proxy for Win is made
by AnalogX - that might be worth looking into.

James