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From: sdrumm@iol.ie (Stephen Drumm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Masqerading?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:39:17 GMT
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dantso@cris.com (Daniel Ts'o) wrote:

>	Being uninformed, my impression is that proxying via the toolkit
>Socks is very application specific. It would be nice to have a more
>general solution. Isn't masquerading more general ? Don't really want to
>arrange apps specific proxy servers or hack in Socks support into each
>Internet app (many/most of which one only gets in binary form)...

Daniel, why not try the new ppp variant, posted in this ng a few days
ago, and available from :-

http://www.srv.net/~cmott/alias.html



Stephen Drumm
Broadstone, Dublin 7
http://www.iol.ie/~sdrumm
sdrumm@iol.ie