From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 1:59:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samstern.net (mail1.samstern.net [63.106.134.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06F5637B405 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 01:59:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from samstern@samstern.net) Received: (qmail 16260 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2001 08:59:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.samstern.net) (192.168.0.10) by 192.168.0.5 with SMTP; 4 Jun 2001 08:59:12 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010604043703.02d72810@mail.internal.samstern.net> X-Sender: samstern@mail.internal.samstern.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 04:58:10 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Sam Stern Subject: FreeBSD 4.3-Stable and Application Level Proxies Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 All, I'm planning on Migrating from OpenBSD 2.8 -> FreeBSD 4.3-Stable on my home network so I can learn more about FreeBSD. One item that I want to accomplish is to investigate various proxies so I can avoid that issues with NAT and streaming media. Examining the ports tree, I see several attractive proxies: -- Delegate (For everything BUT Streaming Media RTSP/RTP and Socks 5) -- Either raproxy30.b1 or RTSP_proxy1.0 for streaming media like Real Audio/Video, Windows Media player or Quick time -- openh323proxy-0.9a3.m09 for Net meeting or other VoIP needs -- socks5-1.0.11_2 for all the rest and fall back to NAT if various items do not work with the proxies Essentially I want to be able to view media in RA, QT, and WMP (such as movies from WWW.ifilm.com, Internet radio like WWW.launch.com, etc.), Use Net Meeting, IRC, Email etc. without revealing my internal IP structure (this tends to drive some Anti-Spam filters quite bonkers). So Far, just using NAT really kills Streaming media and creates some issues for FTP. So I've been forced to look at Win Route and Win Gate on 2K server (ick.). This works quite well but the cost of the Server plus the routing software is unreasonable for a home based user. I'm looking for two items: 1) What are your experiences using proxies for Internet access from RFC1918 address space clients? Of note here is using RTSP/RTP rather than HTTP for such media as HTTP is slower and "skips" more. 2) Are there better choices than the above? 3) How well do these servers inter operate with IPFW and IPF with NAT? 4) Are there any PPTP proxies either built into the NAT infrastructure or available from the ports tree? Otherwise, you can only have one PPTP connection at a time via NAT. Please, let's not rehash how bad a VPN PPTP is. That's a given; but does not change the fact I must use it anyway. Hopefully, various parties can complete the move to a IPSEC tunnel mode VPN soon :> Thanks, in advance, for any help you can provide! -- Sam Stern Bethesda, MD, USA mailto:samstern@samstern.net PGP keys available from the server I prefer PGP clear signed email S/Mime V.2 certificates via direct request To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message