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From: chip <chip@wiegand.org>
To: "C J Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net>, <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
Subject: Re: Opinions wanted - dealing with file sharing in AOL IM
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:41:33 -0800
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On Tuesday 22 January 2002 10:12 am, C J Michaels banged out on the keys:
> Rick Hamell said:
> >> > One of my sons asked me today, about opening a port on the firewal=
l
> >> > so he and some friends from school can share files. I'm a bit lear=
y
> >> > of opening a port on the firewall. I know my freebsd boxes will be
> >> > safe from windoze viruses by
> Parenting tips aside, I would suggest setting up a socks 5 server, ther=
e's
> one available in the ports collection.

Thanks for the suggestion, I looked at the port description, it's a bit v=
ague=20
and there is no web site reference. Do you know of any good web sites I c=
ould=20
learn more about socks? Would it work with ipfw on the same machine?

--=20
Chip
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