Fairly new to Linux. Turning my computer into a proxy?

thedeadlyquiche · n00b Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 33

Hello, I would just like some help turning a freshly installed Gentoo into a web proxy that can be used by applications such as firefox.
I don't know much, but I'm in need of a faster, more reliable proxy to use while at school.

Bigun · Advocate Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2198

Just learn to use and configure squid. Fairly easy to learn.
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thedeadlyquiche · n00b Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 33

Thanks, I was mainly looking for the name of an application.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

"tinyproxy" is pretty easy to set up.

Sachankara · Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

I too recommend tinyproxy. It's dead simple to set up. I've set up tinyproxy on one of my university shell accounts and run my wifi traffic to it, over a ssh connection.

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