On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, John Nall wrote:
> Looking up the definition of a "proxy" it seems to be a machine that sits
> between my terminal and the Internet. Very well. My terminal runs RH8.0,
> and I have an XP machine which is on the same LAN. The XP machine dials the
> ISP to access the Internet, and once it has a connection then I can also
> access it from the Linux machine. It would seem, then, that by definition
> the XP machine is a proxy.
A proxy operates on the application layer. To the worst of my knowledge
this thing called "Internet Connection Sharing" is imply a dial on demand
router function.
Routers function on the network layer.
Hugo.
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