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Proxy servers

Proxy servers

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Proxy servers

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- Most of the time when you're connecting to a web server, or an SSH server, or an FTP server, or whatever you're connecting to, it's basically a direct connection with nothing between you and that server other than a bunch of routers as it gets your packets between the two of you all. However, there is a situation where we could have somebody in between us, somebody that we want called a proxy server. Let me explain the situation. So here I am in a network and the network ID is 192.168.4. And I'm sitting on computer 192.168.4.106. And I got a router, and here's some server way out here with some webpage. Now, normally we just go from our computer through the web, through the internet, however that has to go, and then it gets to the server and back. However, what I'm going to do is I'm going to add a computer. I'm going to add another computer and I'm going to make him 192.168.4.20 say. And I'm going to make him what we call a proxy server. So now what's going to happen is whenever I…

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