Exactly I want to be able to use Mail and News on my Linux machine
and access everything from the proxy server, Once I am comfortable
with Linux I'll consider setting it up as the Firewall/Proxy but I'm not
going to do this until I know all the in's and out's of Linux.. And I still
have not been able to find a decent copy of Socks4 that does not require
extensive corrections and fixes to the scripts and make files, Seems all
the copies I've found are old and outdated and were written for an older
version of Linux as the Directory Tree isn't even close to what my Dist.
and others I've seen use..
Scott
> > I belive configurating netscape to work via a proxy server shopuld be
> > enough, be the remote proxy server NT windows or (u)Linux.
> >
>
> This is fine and good assuming he just wants web access. I don't know how
> much you know about SOCKS and Proxy servers, but...
>
> SOCKS allows for ANY type of TCP/UDP communications to be routed through a
> proxy server that has a SOCKS proxy installed. This includes ICQ, IRC,
> Quake, AOL, just about anything. SOCKS is not restricted to just the use
of
> a web browser. The SOCK implementation I have used for Win95 emulates an
> active stack (Looks and feels to the computer just like a live dial-up
> connection) so that ANY internet application may be used through a proxy
> without the administrator pulling out his hair to figure out what ports do
> or do not need to be proxy'd
>
> Christopher
>
