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Netproxy

Internet gateway for LANs

NetProxy is a multi-protocol proxy server and firewall system for Windows 95 or Windows NT. It allows any number of users on your LAN to access the Internet via a ‘gateway’ PC using a single IP connection. Typically, this is a dial-up SLIP or PPP connection to the Internet, but you can use NetProxy to connect your LAN via an ISDN terminal adapter, frame relay, leased line or any other suitable TCP/IP network connection.
The multi protocol proxy server is the part of NetProxy that allows many machines on your LAN share a single IP connection to the Internet and the firewall is the part that regulates which Internet sites people on your LAN can connect out to and which sites on the Internet can initiate connections to the machines on your LAN.
Internet applications use the TCP/IP protocol suite to talk to the Internet, so you must install TCP/IP on each of the machines on your LAN that you wish to provide Internet access to, and give each machine it’s own, unique IP address. The IP addresses you assign do not need to be provided by your Internet Service Provider or registered with InterNIC because NetProxy effectively 'hides' these IP addresses from the Internet. The section Configuring TCP/IP on your LAN workstations explains how to set up your LAN for use with NetProxy.
If you have a dial-up modem or ISDN connection to the Internet, you can configure NetProxy to automatically dial your Internet Service Provider when one of the machines on your LAN tries to connect to the Internet, and drop the line when nobody is using the Internet. This ensures that any telephone or connect time charges are kept to an absolute minimum. Netproxy is a UK based concern.

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