Re: Ethernet x-over cable

[Ed Davidson <Edavid3001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question:  I run webwhacker at home. It is an offline browser that runs on
Windows.  You set your browser's proxy settings to point back to your PC through
the loopback IP address and setup sites to read offline.  It will read the site
to x # of pages and put it into cache.  Question is - is this considered a PROXY
server?  It is not intended to be a proxy server.  It surfs the internet just
like a browser does, and functions similar to IE's "synchronize" function.  It
only works with HTML and FTP.

Complicate this a little -- If you are running a network at home, you can point 
a
PC's Proxy settings to the IP address of the PC running WebWhacker.  WebWhacker
will act as a caching proxy.   Obviously this is proxy - however what difference
will it make to the cable company?  It is not a true server, and it is still 
only
one PC browsing the internet.  The secondary PC is only accessing the CACHE off
of the first PC.

This sounds like the old days of modems where the phone companies wanted you to
call them and let them know that you had a modem so they could charge you more
because they increased the load on the line.


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