[squid-users] A peculiar situation

Hi all,

I am a new poster to this list so I apologize if the question has been
answered but I did search the FAQ and archives...

My situation is that I have several PPP connections to different ISPs. I
connect to these ISPs through a gateway machine running slackware 7.1 and
kernel 2.4.3. I would like to run squid on my gateway machine to make the
process of selecting a proxy based on which connection I happen to be using
transparent to the rest of the network. At the same time I would like to be
able to retrieve cached files when no connection is present.

Basically one of these PPP accounts uses a proxy that I must log into to
retrieve anything. The other two accounts I own do not require me to use
proxies. Its a pain to set up the proxy in netscape or IE on all the client
machines every time I dial a different ISP account (which ISP I dial is
usually determined by the time of day anyway). Is there a way to make squid
recognise which ISP I have dialed and connect to a proxy or not based on
this information, thus making it transparent to the rest of the network?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Nathan Lovell
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 23:11:11 MDT