At 12:02 PM 10/29/02 -0500, Alex Ryabtsev wrote:
Maybe. Socks is a proxy server, not just an authentication mechanism. So it depends on what activities the original poster wants the dorm's Internet connection to support. Offhand, I am not sure what clients will and what clients will not work through socks. And the requirements for running servers behind a socks firewall are aven more obscure to me.[...] RO> I can't think of anything off the shelf that will do the sort ofIs the socks5 will do this job?
Also, socks uses unencrypted userid/password authentication (see http://www.socks.nec.com/socksfaq.html, item 24). In a situation where the operator is concerned about unaothorized to the LAN, this is weak security.
In my earlier response, I was thinking of supporting direct access to the Internet with authentication, not proxy-based access.
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