i need a free proxy server to run on my laptop......

.....so when i'm at a place that has free wifi, i can hook my voip phone into the NIC on my pc with a crossover cable.

has anyone ever tried to do this? also, whats the best free proxy server i can download?

RV, the :+

....therefore i can get on the web with my laptop, but because they only have wifi, i have no place to plug in my voip phone (internet phone). so, i would like to use my laptop as an access point or router by installing a proxy server on it to use the network card to plug my voip phone into.

Generally a proxy server is used to speed web pages to server clients, and protect said clients from exposure to the internet. Why would you need to use it for your VOIP?

The built in firewall in XP acts kind of like a proxy... Besides, to make a proxy function properly, you need 2 network cards - one internal, one external...

a wireless and a nic

is that he needs his laptop to be his proxy to the internet. The hotel only has wi-fi. His phone connects to the world with rj-45. Therefore, he needs to plug his phone into his standard NIC, and his wireless card connects to the internet. Therefore, he does have 2 nics as you described above, wired, and wireless.

What a proxy does is present a host to the internet as a totally different entity from the interior network. It's very similar to a firewall in function (but different in ways I can't really explain in a post).

In the scenario you describe, you would simply select the card you want to use for the purpose you want to use it for. In most cases, they both just automatically work for the network you connect them to with no action required by you. The packets just show up on your computer like they're supposed to. And still no proxy needed.

If you want traffic from one card to go through the notebook and out the other card (from one IP network to another IP network), what you need is a router, not a proxy. You can use a proxy, but it's probably going to give you fits, especially if what you need it for requires odd ports. The proxies that give you that much flexibility are going to cost $$$.

That's why I asked why he needed a proxy. Doesn't make sense in the scenario he described. A proxy is just a glorified firewall, which XP already has built in. If he wants to route traffic, he needs a router. A proxy ain't gonna do it.

If he wants to route, he MIGHT be able to use the built in internet routing on XP, but dang if I can remember off the top of my head how to configure it. I think it's just a check off on the IP stack config, but I can't remember. You might have to install extra network components. There will be some limits on what network devices can be used with it. The Microsoft knowledgebase would probably have the data on how to configure it.

does this help?

It's what I do. And yes, he needed a proxy for this particular problem. He doesn't need a router. His laptop IS a router, with 2 ethernet interfaces.

This doesn't quite fit the standard definition of a proxy server, but the laptop, in the desired end-state, would be acting as a proxy for the handset.

whereby your laptop would act as both the default gw and the dns server for your phone?

I never have set up the connection sharing piece, but I thought it was a native part of windows networking.

Is using your cell phone (as opposed to your voip phone or hotel phone) feasible?

btw, squid is a free proxy package, but it runs on linux, and I'm assuming you're running a windows pc.

yeah, i'm running xp on my laptop.

right-click on your (wired) LAN connection | properties. Then click the advanced tab. Then select Allow Other Computers to Connect through this computer's internet connection.

tried it but it didn't work :(

also tried creating a bridge between the NIC and the wireless connection with no luck.

tried several free proxies as well....no luck so far.

thanks for the help so far....i'd love to figure this one out.