Not so dumb. If your Linux box is your only PC in the house, it won't do much. It might increase your web-browsing when viewing the same sites many times, but that's probably it. Notice I said it "Might". Primarily, it is intended for use on a server/PC which is used as a gateway for multiple PC;'s , in which case, commonly-viewed web-pages would be loaded from cache memory on the proxy-server, instead of from the actual web-site. Once someone has viewed the site, that page is stored in the cache and offered to other PC's behind the proxy to cut down on Internet performance requirements. So, if you have 4 computers being fed by the proxy-server, and the users all like going to amazon.com, the web-pages from amazon would be stored on the proxy when the first PC went to that site, and subsequently handed off to other PC's when they also wanted to go to amazon.com. Going to another page on the amazon web-site would repeat the process. Having never tried it on a "stand-alone" PC myself, I'm not sure it would provide this function to that one PC, but then again, your browser would perform the same function on it's own. Lanman On Saturday 08 September 2001 09:29 am, you wrote: > Maybe a dumb question, but... > > (Apart from using a Linux box as your home network gateway) what do you use > a proxy server for on the same machine as you access the net? > > Cheers, Rod. > > At 13:23 04/09/2001 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > >Squid is great. http://www.squid-proxy.org. Mandrake comes with Squid > >however. > > > >Arthur H. Johnson II > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The Linux Box > >http://www.linuxbox.nu > > > >On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > May I know which proxy server would u recommend for > > > mandrake, and where do I get information to configure it? > > > Thanks > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
