From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 11 13: 6:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.amicapital.com (smtp.amicapital.com [208.207.126.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3841521A for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:06:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tarrowsmith@amicapital.com) Received: from tarrowsm ([192.168.4.230]) by mail.amicapital.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA12475; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:01:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tarrowsmith@amicapital.com) From: "T.J. Arrowsmith" To: "David Wolfskill" , , Subject: RE: SOCKS Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:04:38 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01be6c02$c6005ec0$e604a8c0@tarrowsm.amicapital.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <199903112006.MAA93490@pau-amma.whistle.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Go to: http://www.socks.nec.com/ And download the SocksCap program. You should be able to use it with any program that doesn't have built-in SOCKS proxy support. Works very well. T.J. Arrowsmith tarrowsmith@amicapital.com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Wolfskill > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 3:06 PM > To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG; stanb@awod.com > Subject: Re: SOCKS > > > >Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 16:27:44 -0500 (EST) > >From: "Stan Brown" > > > I find myself behind a corporate firewall. It is a SOCKS based proxy > > server. So far all I have been able to make work is > Netscape! How can I > > make ftp, telnet and ping work from behind this firewall? > > > Pointers to info greatly appreciated. > > Last time I worked with SOCKS, it was SOCKS 4 (SOCKS 5 was in beta, at > best; this was a few years ago). At that time, there were some client > programs that were provided with the SOCKS sources for FTP, TELNET, and > WHOIS clients. (They were "rftp", "rtelnet", and "rwhois", respectively.) > > I believe I've heard that with SOCKS 5, there's a way to dynamically > "SOCKSify" just about any executable; since I haven't used it, though, I > don't have much information on it. > > Cheers, > david > -- > David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator > dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: > (650) 371-4621 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message