5 Jul
2002
5 Jul
'02
1:51 a.m.
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Kunal Jhunjhunwala wrote:
I have been running a iptables firewall on my red hat machine. How do I an enable socket5 proxy on it?
it's socks, and you'll have to get a socks proxy server to install there. It doesn't have much to do with your iptables firewall, except you'll have to enable any ports that you want to let through.
Socks is a proxy protocol that specifies which ports on internal machines can connect to which ports on external machines. Socks doesn't understand anything about the protocols that it allows through. If I'm not mistaken, I think it runs at the TCP layer.
Philip
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