As for your question regarding using RH 7.2 as your connection to the internet, and as a proxy, you have a couple of options. One way is to have it as the gateway computer to the internet, providing IP Masquerading for the hosts on your internal network. This is in essence network address translation. Look into documentation on IP-MASQ on how to configure this. Another option which you've touched on, is to use it as a proxy server - you could then cache content locally, and put access control on certain sites you'd rather not have accessible. Squid would be a great option for that. Either way, when it comes to network connectivity/services, Linux is where it is at.
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