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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!hustle.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.clark.net!noos.hooked.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not -for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Proxy-type thing for FreeBSD Date: 27 Aug 1996 13:57:47 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4vurcb$et@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <AESm_srWo5@qsar.chem.msu.su> <4vs3mo$24c@anorak.coverform.lan> <3221E284.2720084@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Brian Somers wrote: : ] Apparently socks5 can be "transparent", but I havn't figured : ] out how yet :( : You need a BPF and tunnel-device using socks client daemon. It's : a pretty trivial program (which I haven't written because I know : that Internic is still handing out addresses, and transparent : proxies are immoral anyway, since the allow Win95 to work without : Microsoft fixing the !@#$%! thing). I'm under the impression that *transparent* means stuffing DLLs underneath socks unaware clients - not the transparent I know. I'm also under the impression that I'm saying the same thing in two different threads in this group :( Now if transparent meant reading the bpf device (finding packets destined for "outside"), setting up the proxy, and getting it to use a tun device to write packets on the local interface with the "outside" source address, why doesn't any of the socks5 documentation seem to mention it...... -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....