IE "Automatically detect settings"

[Michael James]

When a default Windows install uses  "Automatically detect settings"
 it relies on DHCP to provide the address of an "ISA"
 (Internet Security and Acceleration) server.
The ISA server gives it a config file for IE with the proxy setting.

Has this been unpicked by the open source community?
Is the ISA functionality available from a Linux server?

Or is there simply a better way?

TIA,
michaelj


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