[Gllug] Need help very much

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:53:22PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:42:54PM +0100, James Bailey wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Can any one tell me if there is a may to make Linux use a proxy for all non
> > local network traffic. Where I am has restricted all net access to make
> > people use the proxy I still want to telnet/ssh out to my box at an ISP. Is
> > there a way to do this?
> > 
> > James
> 
> Hi
> Proxying works on a per-service basis, you have a web proxy, an ftp proxy, 
> a mail proxy, etc. A web proxy can not be used for ssh, and AFAIK an ssh 
> proxy is not really possible as it would break a whole load of things.

Though Proxy-aware browsers turn ftp requests into http requests and
route them through the proxy.

-- 
Bruce

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tra-la-la-la-la.  -- Tiny Tim.
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