From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 16:23:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net (mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net [204.147.80.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0217037B416 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 93691 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2002 22:15:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jenny) (63.231.238.225) by mplspop5.mpls.uswest.net with SMTP; 18 Apr 2002 22:15:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:25:44 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Budec" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Socks proxy for FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a socks proxy avaiable for FreeBSD? Here is what I want to do, run say a socks proxy bound to the localhost interface (127.0.0.1) on whatever the default port is (let's say port 8080 in this example). With this, I could ssh into my FreeBSD box, and port forward localhost on ssh client machine (say port 80 on client) to port 8080 of the FreeBSD box, that way when I use iexplore/netscape all web traffic goes though the "encrypted" proxy, then out to the web. Like this: Win98 iexplore -> ssh_client -> ssh_server-> proxy -> internet That way the network that the Win98 box is on can't sniff any web traffic. Is this good way of doing this, I already have ssh and port forwarding (for XVNC) working correctly. Regards, Jack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message