[plug] proxying

[Shackleton, Kevin]

Panic stations . .

I've been trying to set up squid for a couple of days now without
success.  I can dial the ISP, and Netscape on the clients looks for port
3128 on the proxy server, but nothing much happens in between.  I have
to have this working on Monday for a meeting . .

Rather than put my effort into one problem, I have 2 hdd's that I have
been working on, I swap them over when I get cheesed off with the lack
of progress on one system!  One is RH5.2 and the other is Debian 2.0.2.
I'd be quite happy with either one working.

I guess I've got basic settings wrong.  I changed the IP forwarding to
true in RH but couldn't find the equivalent in Debian.  I don't know
what to set the DNS server to - when dialled in it would want to be the
ISP's DNS (203.13.74.1) but does that cause a problem before we have got
a connection?

I've looked at the ppp and squid references and have got a little way,
for instance with a minimal squid.conf.

If anyone's got a good to-do list, or can spare a Saturday arvo on the
phone, it would be a big help . .

K