Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:07:17 +0200 From: "David Naylor" <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Transparent SOCKS proxy (server side)? Message-ID: <b53f6f940901061107y8c3d952v8d34b4d6c4152fc1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200901060801.54425.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <200901061649.25762.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <200901060801.54425.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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2009/1/6 Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>: > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 05:49:22 David Naylor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My ISP's NAT, unfortunately, does not work more than it does. This is a >> problem as I need to provide 'direct' internet access for the computers >> inside my network. >> >> I would like to set up a transparent SOCKS proxy (similar to transparent >> HTTP proxy, aka squid) on the server. Does anyone know how to do this (and >> which ports to use)? This needs to be a server side solution since I am >> unable to implement this on the clients... > > http://www.freshports.org/net/dante/ As far as I know dante can only be made "transparent" with the use of client side software (such as the libsocks.so libraries under *nix) and not from the server side (i.e. tunneling the traffic through a SOCKS proxy). The way I think of it is similar to NAT (in the capturing of traffic)? Or am I missing something? David
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