Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 11:08:22 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: alk@Think.COM, bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ip masquerading Message-ID: <199605210138.LAA23709@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <22593.832631698@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at May 20, 96 11:34:58 pm
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Gary Palmer stands accused of saying: > > Wrong. Socks works. Works a lot better than Masquerading > actually. SOCKS means that if there is a bug in a application-level > gateway, it isn't disasterous. A Masquerade bug could start mixing up > the i/o streams. No thankyou. > > If nothing else, I believe it is possible for a SOCKS implimentation > for Windows workstations to be done at the winsock.dll level, isn't > it? That should remove the need for separate support in each > application. This is correct. AFAIK, IBM have SOCKS support in their current TCP stack for OS/2 as well. > And before you start thinking ``this guy is nuts ... he doesn't know > what it's like with a singe IP address and a LAN to run from that one > address). Wrong. I have 3 IP capable machines in my appartment, and > one IP address (palmer.demon.co.uk, 158.152.50.50). If I need to get > access to the internet from my LAN, I use a proxy gateway. You're not alone 8) Although I have my own C at home, we ran a network which fluctuated up to 20 machines at times here at work for about a year using a single IP and a SOCKS proxy. In all that time, there was never anything we wanted to do that couldn't be done with it. > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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