> Firstly, I believe PAC files are for HTTP proxies, not SOCKS proxies.

For clients, usually used by browsers but as you're extending
current functionality why not recycle these existing facilities
which would need to be set up for this v6 only client world anyway

> I'm afraid my SOCKS experience is severely lacking - I've done
> transparent squid proxying, and I've done the old "ssh -D 3333" trick,
> but that's the limit of my proxy experience; that is to say, only
> scratching the surface!

That's not real old SOCKS, usually there's a box running a SOCKS
daemon between you and the other net. There may be many of these
connecting to different nets (interconnected corporates with their
own firewalls gets messy)

brandon


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