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Tip of the week Posted by Beat Rubischon on Monday June 24, @11:53AM
from the fast-and-from-everywhere dept.
The Informatikdienste operates a webproxy which helps in two things:

  • Reduce the traffic and speed up surfing out of ETHZ
  • Allows access to restricted sites from home
In most cases, the proxy makes a VPN or Dial-In connection to the ETHZ superfluous and is much easier to configure.
When you need to configure the proxy manually, its name is proxy.ethz.ch and the port 3128.

To help you configuring the proxy, we have set up a config script:

Mozilla

  • Edit
  • Preferences
  • Advanced
  • Proxies
  • Click Automatic proxy configuration URL
  • Enter http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/proxy.pac
Netscape
  • Edit
  • Preferences
  • Advanced
  • Proxies
  • Click Automatic proxy configuration URL
  • Enter http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/proxy.pac
Internet Explorer
  • Right click on the IE-Icon
  • Select Properties
  • Choose Tab connections
  • Click LAN Setup
  • Mark Use automatic configuration script
  • Enter http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/proxy.pac
Lynx, Links, w3m, wget
  • Edit your .profile and enter the text export http_proxy=http://proxy.ethz.ch:3128/

If you want to use this service from outside ETHZ (e.g. from your home computer) you will be asked for a username and password. This is your NETHZ account, which you got by letter from the Personalabteilung of ETHZ. This will allow you to access ETH-wide services from home. However, there is one big problem with this: Your NETHZ password will be transmitted in clear. So please be careful from where you are using the proxy service.



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