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Help Needed: Auto-Configure Proxy Settings via DHCP

April 4th, 2009 14 comments

At home I run my own DHCP, DNS and Squid proxy. I implemented the proxy because my DSL connection is pretty bad and anything I can do to improve that goes a long way.  Now my proxy works fine, but the issue that I’m running into is having it auto-configure the browser(s) on each machine in the house. It doesn’t do me any good to be running a proxy if it doesn’t actually get used.

Can anyone outline for me, or point me to a reliable resource, on how to automagically configure proxy settings via DHCP.  I have spent some time googling this but nothing has worked so far. Either the pages I found were out dated or missing information. Basically I would like any browsing within the LAN to go through the proxy. This will include Firefox, Safari and Epiphany browsers.

Thanks in advance.

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