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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 11:08:22 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        alk@Think.COM, bmah@cs.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ip masquerading
Message-ID:  <199605210138.LAA23709@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <22593.832631698@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at May 20, 96 11:34:58 pm

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Gary Palmer stands accused of saying:
> 
> Wrong. Socks works. Works a lot better than Masquerading
> actually. SOCKS means that if there is a bug in a application-level
> gateway, it isn't disasterous. A Masquerade bug could start mixing up
> the i/o streams. No thankyou.
> 
> If nothing else, I believe it is possible for a SOCKS implimentation
> for Windows workstations to be done at the winsock.dll level, isn't
> it? That should remove the need for separate support in each
> application.

This is correct.  AFAIK, IBM have SOCKS support in their current TCP stack
for OS/2 as well.

> And before you start thinking ``this guy is nuts ... he doesn't know
> what it's like with a singe IP address and a LAN to run from that one
> address). Wrong. I have 3 IP capable machines in my appartment, and
> one IP address (palmer.demon.co.uk, 158.152.50.50). If I need to get
> access to the internet from my LAN, I use a proxy gateway.

You're not alone 8)  Although I have my own C at home, we ran a network
which fluctuated up to 20 machines at times here at work for about a year
using a single IP and a SOCKS proxy.  In all that time, there was never
anything we wanted to do that couldn't be done with it.

> Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member

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