Help with a proxy

[twofoolish2b]

Hello everyone, I need some help with my proxy. I am using AnalogX Proxy on my Windows 2000 box and I have Slackware 7.1 on my Linux box. I can connect to the Internet thru the proxy with Netscape on the Linux side, but if I try to ping a Internet site from the command line from my Linux box I get network unreachable.

I have even set my ISP's DNS server in netconfig under the name server option, but still nothing. Does anyone know what could be wrong? Thanks...

[shaggy112]

a proxy will only "proxy" for certain things. In your case port 80, and possibly others. you are trying to do something for which you would need a gateway. In linux you can set that up by using a firewall, or ipchains. one of my favorites is pmfirewall...which will let you masquerade.
dont know what you want to do to set that up in wind2k. There are many inet sharing programs for windows. maybe winroute

[Ryeker]

A proxy server only gives http service (web pages). In order to do what you want, you need to setup a NAT (Network adddress translation?) service. Windows 2k includes it, called ICS (internet connection sharing). Install that (in Network properties) and you wont need your proxy server.

[twofoolish2b]

Thanks Ryeker, it worked.