Re: TI-H: linux...
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Re: TI-H: linux...
The GATEWAY IS NEVER A PROXY on a normal ISP!!!! listen to me! proxies don't
route, therefore they cannot be gateways. use common sense man.
-Gabe
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: TI-H: linux...
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>>>Your ISP can proxy everything without you knowing. No netscape setup or
>>>anything.
>>
>>
>>Not unless they have you running proprietary software or are using some
>>funky connection protocol. If they are throwing you straight PPP, then you
>>retrieve the default gateway. You call the gateway a proxy. Everyone else
in
>>the english-speaking country calls it a router.
>
>I call a router, a router. gussie.alaska.net is a router. I'm using
>192.168.1.63 and the www server is 192.168.1.249. List server
>192.168.1.248. Router, 192.168.1.1. You can force a caching proxy on
>people who are using a PPP server and the gateway the ISP provides.
>
>Aol gives dumb names to their proxy servers. :/
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