How to setup Internet access from HP Unix

[Yaboto]

Hi,

Please give me the required procedures to enable me access the internet from my hp unix server.

Regards,
Berenger

[Oviwan]

Hey

It depends on your network infrastructur. if you have a route to the internet set the IP of the router as your gateway in hpux. you can use sam for this.

Regards

[Yaboto]

What about the proxy and port setting ?

[Jeeshan]

offcourse you should consider abt proxy

[Yaboto]

So What are the configurations files I need to amend to setup the proxy and the port ?

[Brad Sheldon]

As stated depends on how your network is setup.
ie firewalls dns hosts files proxy's
you need to give us more information than just a blind question
please supply more information

[Ralph Grothe]

Possibly required proxy settings are very dependent on the respective application.
As varied as those apps are, as different are the files and directives they use to configure them.
At least a few applications like wget, LWP user agents, (curl?) etc. they sometimes honor the same environment variables.
So you could try to export these

export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.tld:port"
export proxy_user="someuser"
export proxy_passwd="somepass"

[Yaboto]

Hi,

In the building, if I am to setup internet access on a windows personal computer, after assigning the default gateway IP Address in the tcp/ip properties, I open the Internet Options page under the Tools menu, then LAN settings, then check "use a proxy server ..." then tetting in the IP address of the proxy server and then the port 8080. This is sufficient enought to browse from any MS Windows PC from any local area network from any remote branch of the organisation.
On the HP Unix servers, the Default Gateway has already been set using SAM or the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file. Now my question is: How and where will I set up the proxy server address IP Address and the port 8080 on my HP Unix servers to enable them access and browse the internet ? Can I use SAM for the configuration of the proxy setting ? If yes enumerate the procedures.If no, then tell me the configuration file(s) I need to amend for the purpose. Else, tell me what I shoul do.

Regards,
Berenger

[MarkSyder]

If you are using Firefox you load the browser, select edit, preferences, general, connection settings.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)