Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:09:21 +0200 From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Natd - IP Redirect! Message-ID: <19981203160921.A19702@cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <01be1ec2$19080fc0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>; from Greg Quinlan on Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 01:37:40PM -0000 References: <01be1ec2$19080fc0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 03 Dec 1998 at 13:37 SAST, Greg Quinlan wrote: > > What about socks5? > Is this similar to natd but with proxying? No, quite different (though it may well be used for the same purposes). Socks is a circuit-level proxy (as opposed to application layer proxies like Squid). In order to use socks to proxy a specific service, you need a client for that service which has been adapted to use socks (many web browsers, etc., can do so out of the box). NAT is purely an address translation scheme. It gives users on the internal, reserve-numbered network the illusion that they have full, direct IP connectivity to the Internet. I recommend the natd(8) man page for a succinct but comprehensive description of how the process works. Note that there's no reason why you can't use NAT and proxying (whether circuit- or application-level) simultaneously. -- V Johann Visagie | wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 | ICQ: 20645559 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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