Hey.. I've got a question.. how would one setup a proxy to the internet through another IP address.

For example, say Bob's store had three PCs hooked up to a server that filtered content from the internet so he couldn't view certain sites from work. What we want to do is setup a proxy to a cable modem at Bob's house so the server only saw only that address for all internet traffic and didn't filter it.

Is this possible ?

we have another PC at the house that could act as a server by itself, so that's no big deal.

I've a diagram at http://members.cox.net/kemion/Photos/001.png to help display better what I'm talking about.

Thanks,

- Linear_z -

Sure, you can do that.

Management at Bob's store might not be too happy, and if the administrator of the server at Bob's store has the will and the knowledge, you will be found out.

If Bob's job isn't all that important to him, knock yourself out.

Hope this helps.

not really.. but let's say that he isn't too concerned because it's standard, non-supervised corporate junk and it's blocking work related sites and no one wants to call anybody to come look at it because 'it's not supposed' to do that.. how would he set up his own connection ?

- Linear_z -

So it's easier to try and circumvent the protection/filtering to reach 'work related websites' that are being incorrectly blocked, than to fix the misconfiguration that is causing the problem ?

That's some twisted logic.. Doesn't sound quite kosher to me..

I guess so.. It's not my problem. I'm only trying to help someone who asked if it could be done. If it were me, I'd try the direct approach as suggested. Maybe they've asked already and got a crappy answer? Seeing as how this is the only information I have.. what can you expect. I don't know the exact details, but all they're telling me is that their server at work is blocking certain sites and it's a pain. Why don't they fix it right? Maybe it's the result of a stingy admin? Who knows. Nonetheless, it needs to be corrected one way or another. Any ideas?

- Linear_z -

Take the stingy admin out for a beer.

It is pretty easy to do with an ssh server and putty. At home, setup the SSH server and then configure putty as a socks server... then configure your application(s) to use the local proxy server. A quick howto can be found at http://www.linquist.net/geek/proxy. Note that, DNS queries will goto your local DNS server at work, but the actual traffic will be tunneled through the SSH server. Quick and dirty. If you are able to connect to any external system on port 22, then your network admins deserve to be bypassed.

thanks... that gave me a good jump point, but my home machine is linux. I've looked into openssh and squid, but they're not very straight forward. any suggestions for a gui proxy configurator ?

- Linear_z -