From owner-freebsd-net Fri Jul 16 10:46:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from the.oneinsane.net (the.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2835614D80 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by the.oneinsane.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14414 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from insane@localhost) by lunatic.oneinsane.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA59176 for freebsd-net@freebsd.org; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:43:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 10:43:52 -0700 From: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN / Transparent proxy access? Message-ID: <19990716104352.A58592@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson References: <09DDCBC4F939D31186D20008C7333C82@high-voltage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <09DDCBC4F939D31186D20008C7333C82@high-voltage.com>; from Brian McGroarty on Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 11:40:00AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 3.2-STABLE X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 10:35AM up 1 day, 18:13, 2 users, load averages: 0.16, 0.11, 0.07 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Brian McGroarty was heard blurting out: > We're behind a Wingate firewall at work. There are no NAT services, just > standard proxy services plus socks. > > I want to add a FreeBSD machine to my desk, but I'd like to use standard > services. How can I do this? > > Thought 1: Could I create a ppp tunnel to my home network? How would I reach > through socks? > > Thought 2: I saw a package which uses ipfw to capture external web requests > and route them via a web proxy. Would it be conceivable to route all external > traffic via socks? > > I just have replaced a wingate machine with a 486 running FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE. The client likes it more due to the fact that control to that machine from the outside world can be set anyway at anytime to either allow an outsider in or to close a port that does not need to be accessed from the outside. Plus the license is alot cheaper. Machine Configuration: 486 DX2-66 16Megs of RAM 540 and 850 HD Running DHCP, XNTPD, DNS With a FreeBSD doing the chore it would be awhole lot easier to try and get a tunnel going. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was null and void ------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone is someone else's weirdo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message