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To: Street Walker who wrote (791)	5/24/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Is there a specific reason you want to use a proxy server rather than routing software? For instance, Win NT has builtin routing software. You can configure an NT WS to route 1 IP address (I do not know if you can do this successfully for a dial-in connection with an assigned IP address -- I must try this but I haven't). The advantage is that routing occurs at the IP layer, not at the high-level protocol layers (http is above winsock which is above tcp etc). The disadvantage is that you can't penetrate certain barriers such as firewalls, so if you have to get out from behind a firewall you may need the proxy. Note: I'm NOT by any means an expert on this subject; I am stating it as I understand it just to raise the point, subject to correction by the cognoscenti. Btw, for many years I thought "cognoscenti" meant "oderless little gears" <ggg>. Spots

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