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Hi
we are just trialing using a pac file for out machines.
on windows machines it works fine when set to autodetect settings.
however on mageia machines it is very hit and miss. even with the url explicitly entered into the network settings page it will not apply any settings.
I have downloaded the file to the machine at /etc/proxy.pac and i have set the location to file:///etc/proxy.pac and it does not detect the settings at all.

although the file works 100% of the time on my windows machines i still made a very basic config and that also does not work reliably.
can anyone offer any advice.
I have removed all of the additional config and just put a very basic one as below and that still does not work.

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function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "192.168.0.0", "255.255.255.0"))
return "PROXY 192.168.0.117:3128";
else
return "DIRECT";
}


thanks

so i just realised why it isnt working
if i try

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hostname -i

i am not getting a local IP but a WAN IP, can anyone offer a solution for this.

thank you!

jonnip wrote:however on mageia machines it is very hit and miss. even with the url explicitly entered into the network settings page it will not apply any settings.

What network settings page exactly, and what browser?

For your IP issue, could you please show the output as root of

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netstat -rn
ifconfig -a

Apart from that, hostname -i is pretty unreliable.

hi

the network settings is:

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gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy autoconfig-url 'xxx.xxx.com'
gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode 'auto'


netstat -rn

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Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
0.0.0.0         192.168.88.1    0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 wlo1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 wlo1
192.168.88.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 wlo1


ifconfig

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eno1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr A0:B3:CC:BF:82:FD 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:60 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4512 (4.4 KiB)  TX bytes:4512 (4.4 KiB)

wlo1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:ED:B9:6A:D4:0C 
          inet addr:192.168.88.75  Bcast:192.168.88.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::aed:b9ff:fe6a:d40c/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16648 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3188624 (3.0 MiB)  TX bytes:311771 (304.4 KiB)


there is a link http://xmodulo.com/2012/12/how-to-set-up-proxy-auto-config-on-ubuntu-desktop.html
that recommends using a script which basically grabs the address from ifconfig and then places it in the hosts file but i am home some troubles to get it to work with mageia.