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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:04:38 -0500
From:      "T.J. Arrowsmith" <tarrowsmith@amicapital.com>
To:        "David Wolfskill" <dhw@whistle.com>, <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>, <stanb@awod.com>
Subject:   RE: SOCKS
Message-ID:  <000f01be6c02$c6005ec0$e604a8c0@tarrowsm.amicapital.com>
In-Reply-To: <199903112006.MAA93490@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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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" <stanb@awod.com>
>
> >	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
>
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