Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:41:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org> To: mc7953@mclink.it (Marco Masotti) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Masquerading.. Message-ID: <199607171741.KAA01976@starshine> In-Reply-To: <31ECD658.41C67EA6@mclink.it> from "Marco Masotti" at Jul 17, 96 02:02:32 pm
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> > >From: Jim Dennis <jim@starshine.org> > >Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 13:13:46 -0700 (PDT) > >Subject: Re: IP Masquerading.. > > > >> I know Linux can do it (I have a friend who has it setup, >masquerading > >> a Win95 machine through his Linux box to the network via ppp). > > > >> -Brandon Gillespie > > Darren Reed's IPFilter package. Consider using SOCKS instead. > > I guess it might be slightly simpler using the proxys included in TIS > Toolkit. > > Till a few months ago, Socks required modification of your client. Is > that yet true? > > Marco If I understood the Brandon correctly, he was trying to connect some non-Unix boxes through (Win '95?) the gateway. In this case all you need is a WINSOCK.DLL that knows about your proxying service -- all Windows applications should go through WINSOCK to get to any internet service (any that don't will by wildly incompatibly with lots of stuff). Does TIS FWTK include a WINSOCK binary (most Win'95 users don't have a compiler handy -- and vast differences exist between compilers and development environments on DOS Windows in general; code is often less portably between Borland, MS C, and Symantec/Zortech than it is between Solaris and Linux). I know that the trumpet WINSOCK can be configured to talk to a SOCKS server. I don't know about TIS. Also I noticed that there is a checkbox in the Win '95 TCP/IP configuration dialogs about "Use Proxy" (or words to that effect). I don't know what they mean by that -- (I've heard rumors that it might tie into some proprietary NT proxying service -- maybe in "BackOffice" -- but I'd sure like to know more). Jim Dennis, Starshine Technical Services,
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