Very Computer

SUBJECT :

I run a two computer network in Linux. One of the computers has a modem; will the
use of SOCKS all the other computer (which has no internet connection) to access
the inet; ie will socks route all ip calls from my LAN to the inet? Is this the main use of
SOCKS? Do i _HAVE_ to install a firewall aswell? Can socks5 route UDP requests;
like DCC and Archie? Whats the square root of 1048567?

Thanks for abslutely ANY help you may offer... Im very confused and knee deep in
unhelpful web pages :)

Tim Austwick, nice socks!

- You have 2 computers A and B connected by a local area network;
- Computer A has access to the Internet, thus has a "real" IP address;
- Computer B has no "real" IP address and the IP's between A and B
  are trasferred with private IP addresses;
- You want to make B access the Internet.

You can run sockd on Computer A, but your client program on Computer B must
be socks-savvy and properly configured so that it knows that Computer A
is a sock proxy server. B establishes a virtual circuit with A and A
transforms the IP packet passed from and to B within the virtual circuit
appropriately. For example, netscape is socks-savvy and I use netscape
on a Mac which uses a private IP address behind an Interneted Linux to
access the Internet.

I've heard of UDP passing with SOCKS, but am not very sure.

Be careful of your socks holes!

hiro
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On Tue, 14 May 1996 18:38:58 -0400, "S. Newhouse"

You need to set up named on your firewall server. Read the DNS HOW-TO.

named is included in most standard linux distributions.

Later,
-B

Brandon High    http://www.ccnet.com/~bjhigh    Down with Big Brother!

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