> Taking another look at this. It doesn't really work the way I had > hoped. I can set the $http_proxy variable when connecting to the VPN > but the variable is only valid from the bash shell it was called from. > Is there no way to make existing processes acknowledge the variable? no, environment variables are only inherited from the parent process > The main idea behind this is so that I can leave my browser running > whether I'm connected to the VPN or not. Currently I have firefox with > setup to connect to the proxy and I use another browser whenever I'm > not connected (rather than changing the firefox network settings > everytime). Install the foxy-proxy extension for Firefox, it'll allow you to quickly change the proxy -- damjan
