[plug] Accessing the net via my firewall

Christian Müller mullerc at iinet.net.au
Sun Nov 11 16:57:01 WST 2001


try setting up squid, which is a proxy server and then point your proxy in 
your browser to the firewall machine on port 3218

Regards,

Christian

At 16:27 11/11/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>I have set up an old pentium box to use as a firewall. The network has only
>a workstation and the firewall at this stage, haven't even got ipchains
>installed as yet,still testing :-)
>
>         So far I can do mostly all things from the workstation. Run ppp to
>logon etc,but when try to use a browser I get "cannot make a connection"
>error.
>
>         I -think- that I need a line/lines in inetd.conf to enable port 80,
>/etc/services list two for www. one tcp another udp. Tried a couple but i
>can't find a sample entry to show the complete syntax.
>
>If this is the problem could someone point where to look or show a sample?
>
>Otherwise any suggestions appreciated.
>
>Running Debian potato Kernel version 2.2.19pre17 on the 'firewall' and 2.4.9
>on the workstation. I'll post all the configs and outputs if necessary
>
>Thanks
>
>--
>                     ----russ----
>
>
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