Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

["Mike Owen" <kyphros@gmail.com>]

On 4/6/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/06, Mike Owen <kyphros@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm curious as to why you need the proxy info in the first place. It
> > sounds like you can connect out just fine, so why bother with
> > configuring a proxy?
>
> No I can't connect to the Internet.  Also I believe that icmp traffic
> is blocked.  No pings are returned.
>

On the Windows side, do you have to authenticate to the proxy, or does
it just connect through it?


> >
> > If you are allowed to send icmp and udp traffic out of the network, a
> > traceroute should show you what hops are on your network. If routing
> > forces all traffic through this proxy, it'll probably be one of these
> > hops.
> >
> > Or, they could be doing policy routing where only tcp port 80/443
> > traffic goes through the proxy, and all other traffic goes out some
> > other route. In that case, you'll need to use a tcp traceroute program
> > configured to probe on port 80, so it is forced through the proxy.
>
> How do I do that?
>

emerge -vp tcptraceroute
 :P

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