Help me emerge through my squid proxy

johnson_steve · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 62

My internet connection goes like this:

Neighbor's DSL Modem (192.168.0.1) --> lynksys router (192.168.1.1) --> WiFI to Ethernet adapter --> 24 port hub --> Gentoo Box running squid (10.0.0.2) --> another lynksys router (10.0.0.1) --> laptop (10.0.0.5) and ipod (10.0.0.3)

I can surf the web with Firefox by setting it to use my squid proxy (10.0.0.2:3128) same deal with the ipod I set the proxy settings in safari and it surfs just fine. but neither have an internet connection outside the browser. I've tried to set the http_proxy and other environment variables as per the installation guide but I still can't ping any web sites or run emerge. could have something to do with the dns server as my network is spread over 2 subnets but then how does firefox work? The only way I can emerge anything is to plug right into the 24 port hub and get an ip address from (My) linksys in my neighbors house.

I would like to be able to use my wiFi for everything so I could emerge/bittorrent/frostwire/etc from the couch or bedroom not the table next to my sink (possible disaster.) I figure there has to be something I can change on my laptop or the squid server (both gentoo) to make this work. Please help me.

whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

Is portage using wget? wget can go through proxies: edit /etc/wgetrc

champ · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:48 am Post subject:

In addition to the change in make.conf to connect through a proxy with emerge you need to edit the file /etc/wgetrc and change the following lines:

johnson_steve · n00b Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 62

Thank you!
I can now emerge through my proxy.

Is use_proxy = on an environment variable I should have been using all along? I didn't see it in the installation guide; this could explain why I wasn't able to get it to work.

champ · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:03 am Post subject:

No, the use_proxy is not an environment variable. What emerge does is use wget as its backend when fetching. So wget has to be told that there is a proxy. The guide is not very clear on that.

Well, glad its working.

Cheers.
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