Here's something I just thought of.
Customers at a cybercafe often want to use more than just a browsers.
They use ICQ, MSN messencer, Yahoo Chat, AOL Instant messenger, MIRC etc.
These clients do not use http to connect to their servers and hence an
http proxy is of no use to them. ICQ uses UDP which makes proxying even
more complicated.
We would have to use a socks proxy to get over this problem. I believe
that there is something mentioned in the firewall howto about socks using
ipchains or something, but I don't remember it in detail as it was a long
time ago.
We will have to look into the following:
1. setup a socks proxy, or some other way to get these clients connected
2. are there linux versions for all these clients?
- mirc is no problem, I'm sure there are loads of chat clients that
offer the same functionality.
- there is a linux ICQ clone - can't remember the name, but searching on
freshmeat will turn it up quite soon.
- MSN, Yahoo and AOL need to be looked into. People are not going to
stop using it, and cybercafe operators will not want to turn away
customers.
Philip
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