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> >> This might be a stupid question, but what is a proxy?

> >A "Proxy" is a person or thing that is authorized BY YOU to do
> >something. It acts AS you - this is your proxy. In internet terms, it
> >means that you authorize a "program" to act as your proxy (usually to
> >respond to firewall authorization prompts).

> In this case it means that it caches web pages and sends the locally cached
> copy to a browser instead of retrieving the original via HTTP...

Is this a way to let machines get access to the Internet even if
only one machine on the LAN has actual Internet access?


             Provider
             	|
	     	|
	My-machine(gateway?)
       (with internet access)----Another-machine
	  (running proxxy)
		|
		|
	 A-third-machine

I wish...



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