Add a Proxy with TinyProxy

📅 November 28, 2020
Suppose you have a group of devices in a private LAN that have no access to the Internet but you later discover that one needs to connect to the Internet for whatever reason.

How can we allow that one device to connect to the Internet without allowing the entire LAN to access the Internet?

We can use a proxy!

A multi-homed computer is one that connects to more than one network through multiple network ports. One network is the private LAN, and the other is the Internet. We can install a proxy (specifically a forward proxy) on the multi-homed system in order to allow something like a web browser located on the private LAN to access the Internet.

We can achieve the same result using other proxies, such as Polipo, but Polipo has been discontinued and is no longer available in the Ubuntu repository. In this article, we will look at a simple installation using TinyProxy in Linux Mint 20.