Jeff wrote:
......
> Is there a way to put a windows 2000 server machine or a linux machine
> between our switch and the lan connecton that will allow us to skip
> the step of entering the proxy url? To put it another way, can we
> make the proxy server transparent? I've heard of transparent
> -Jeff
> proxying, could it be used? Would a machine forwarding port 80 to the
> port on the proxy server work? Can a machine be made to autoconfigure
> the clients via wpad? Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/TransparentProxy.html
Additionally, you can set dns server, gateway, netbios name (WINS) server
and ntp server by dhcp, enabling you to use NATted LAN boxen to connect to
the inet without any modification "out of the box" as they are configured
to use dhcp by default.
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