A stupid question

As you can probably tell by me posting this question, I don't use terminal very often. I am playing around with settings for the proxy server and found that I don't particularly know what I am doing. My simple question is this:
I am executing the following command in the terminal
networksetup -setwebproxy <networkservice> <domain> <port number> <authenticated> <username> <password>
I have tried many things, but have had no success in finding what goes in place of <networkservice>. If anyone could give me a tip or some guidance it would be greatly appreciated.
Powermac G5 Quad, MacBook, iBook, Mac Mini, and iMac Mac OS X (10.4.4) Mac OS X Server 10.4

<networkservice> is the name of the interface you're trying to configure, as displayed in System Preferences -> Network.
Valid examples would be: "Built-in Ethernet", "AirPort", etc.:
<pre class=command>networksetup -setwebproxy "Built-in Ethernet" my.proxy.net 8080</pre>
Note that since 'Built-in Ethernet' contains a space it needs to be quoted on the command line otherwise networksetup sees <networkservice> as 'Built-in', and <domain> as 'Ethernet', which probably isn't correct.
If there's no space in the interface name then you can omit the quotes, but it doesn't hurt to put them there anyway.

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