Divert Dialup traffic to proxy on LAN! (**Tough one**)

[Jay1Roy]

Dear friends,

I connect to the Internet through my corporate proxy and have my IE point to it. Now the trouble is I need to run some utilities that don’t understand proxies but work only with dialups. Not to mention, the proxy requires authentication and therefore failing some utilities that understand proxies but don’t take user name and password for proxy authentication resulting in 404, proxy auth. Failed.

Now, I was wondering if any of you know or can find out a way to set up a dummy dial up network that connects to the proxy (using user ID, password) over LAN and keeps it transparent to these applications.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!
Roy.

 

[thedaver]

Your dialup will presumably have a different network subject to different routing. We'd have to know more about the tools you are dealing with. Or perhaps you could get the local admin to open a firewall port for you past the proxy?!

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[Jay1Roy]

Hi "thedaver"

Thanks for your reply. I’ll give you a particular example of software that uses dialup connectivity instead of going through proxy. Achilles is ”middle-man” software that sits between the browser and the web server and records/modifies information sent between them. This helps identify bugs in JSPs where the parameters or page isn’t being built properly.

The proxy server settings of the browser needs to point towards this software and it works as a proxy but it has no option where I can specify to use our corporate proxy (IP, Port, user ID, password). It’s a wonderful piece of software but I can’t use it to test issues in production.

Thus I want a method that will divert all traffic to the dialup network towards my corporate proxy (which uses authentication). I hope I portrayed a clearer picture this time. Now, tell me the solution!

Cheers!
Roy.