Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (89 mails)

[James Samuel <james@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, adrian.wells wrote:

> I am able to access the Squid2 proxy across the my network (and locally)
> but I can not get Squid to access the outside world - I get a message from
> Squid saying that the URL can not be found.
> 
> I am using a modem to access Freeserve - This works fine locally by giving
> Netscape the IP address and port of Freeserve.
> 
> I do not understand how to make Squid see the modem as a port and/or
> Freeserve's IP address/port. It appears that all the documentation that I
> have found addresses every issue bar this.

Squid doesn't "see" the port in any way. It just tries to connect to the
URL it's given in the same as Netscape, Lynx, et al would. Bear in mind
you MUST set up the proxy in Netscape for it to work at all. (Or do nasty
things with firewalling and redirection, but you don't want to do that)

A standard squid config should work pretty much out of the box. Just
specify the hostname of the machine, etc, and it'll all work.

> Assuming that I can get this to work, is it possible to get the modem to
> auto-dial on demand (and drop out) or else be accessed over the net? I am
> using kppp at present.

diald will help here. Take a look at it.

-- 
James Samuel
Network Manager, SuSE Linux Ltd.
Phone: +44 (0)208 387 4088 Fax: +44 (0)208 387 4010