Russell,
        I to looked for a proxy server that you described. I found Winproxy. http://www.ositis.com/

Easy to use, I have never had it crash, and it has a firewall and virus protection. I send and receive email through the
proxy server all the time. I use a Satellite down link on one PC, the other PC's log into the primary PC to access the
internet. It works great and the cost is reasonable.

Gordon Varney
www.iamnee.com



> Can anyone recommend a good proxy server to allow Internet connection
> sharing on a Windows based LAN.
> Workstations are running WIN 95 / 98 SE / ME. Subsequently there may be some
> old WIN3.11 PCs added to do dedicated tasks. Also one or more Linux boxes
> "sometime".
>
> The host has a nominally 128 kbps ADSl link and is running WIN 98 SE.
>
> The Microsoft provided "Interconnection Sharing"  proxy server has had some
> less than nice things said about it (which may not be exceptionally true).
>
> There are a host of 3rd party proxy servers out there - many free. They also
> mostly come with a revision history that suggests there may be more bugs to
> come - except for those with no revision history at all that suggests they
> may not be seriously developed :-) .
>
> Can anyone recommend a simple, ideally free, stable & effective proxy server
> for this purpose.
> Needs to be able to run on the WIN98SE host.
> Something with extra features is not really required although if your
> favourite stable free solution has lots of extra bells and whistles then pse
> comment on them.
>
>
>
>
> regards
>
>                     Russell McMahon

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