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Setting up a PProxy questions

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GeoffS

Lifer
You guys have been a fountain of knowledge, and I am hoping to tap it some more.

Here is my scenario:

I can grab computers that have not yet been deployed and use them until they need to be deployed. Aside from these, I have a small herd of my own that I have hooked up to a hub and can access from Mother Cow (my work PC), which has internet access, and also crunches. All machines are running Win98, however I would like to use the Klinux on the transient PCs so I don't have to go mucking with the network settings on them.

So,

1. If I put a pproxy on Mother Cow, can it still crunch? Does it pull blocks through the pproxy, or does it connect to Mika directly?

2. What are the setting I need to change in the Baby Cows' .ini to have them see the new pproxy?

Thanks!
 
1. Yes, the cow running the pproxy can also run the client. 🙂
2. Change the keyserver= parm in the .INI to use the IP address (or DNS name if you use DNS) of the cow running the perproxy.
 
On Mother Cow, should it's client pull from the pproxy also running on Mother Cow, or directly from Mika?
 
As, jinsonxu said, the Mother Cow pulls from it's own pproxy.
That way it's crunched blocks show up in the pproxy's log which
is pretty cool if you're running stats on your pproxy! 😉
 
I've got my pproxy running behind a firewall here at work, and the company PCs are munching off of the pproxy. I have the clients feeding off the pproxy just fine (woohoo!!!) Since all of the clients are set up to use my email address, do stats from my pproxy make any sense? Do they break down by IP address (that is the only thing that would be useful to me).

Thanks again!
 
All stats sent to Mika's will show the output as from 1 IP.

Unless you're running your own stats whic will then show the hosts which would be the IP of the computers on your lan.

I'm curious though, my proxy got messed up when i connected a lan to it. The networked computers could connect but not the outside world.
 
I'm not very networking savvy, but this is what I did.

Mother Cow has two nics - one to the company network which runs NetWare, and one to my network which is using Client for Microsoft Networks.
The pproxy on Mother Cow goes out through our firewall to Mika.
All of the computers on my network access Mother Cow through the IP address of the second nic.

What I discovered (and am pleasantly surprised about) is that PCs on my company lan can ping Mother Cow, so I have been slowly changing them to come through Mother Cow's proxy instead of going to Mika directly.

LMK if that helps (if it does, that will *really* make my day!)
 
Yeah.. I don't need the stats, really. I can do something myself with the log file sorted and accumulated by IP address I figure. I was very surprised how easy this was. And using VNC BLEW ME AWAY Coolest tool I have used in a long time!
 
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