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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP Masqerading?
Date: 28 Aug 1996 10:31:29 +0100
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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M C Wong (mcw@aus.hp.com) wrote:
: While we are at this topic, how do people rank all existing
: proxy/NAT implementations in terms of :
I've configured socks5 (& harvest - a.k.a. "cached", but I havn't checked
to see if harvest works, 'cos socks5 did).
: - useability, ease of configuration
socks5: RTFM - straight forward - some understanding of firewall type
instructions would help.
harvest: RTFM - straight forward - but I don't know if it works :)
: - less violations to RFC
Proxies don't voilating anything. Transparent proxies and NAT do - I
suppose. Harvest is a web cache that can be used as a proxy - no
violations. Socks5 can be used in transparent mode. My understanding
is that "transparent" in the socks5 sense involves stuffing a shared library
underneath normal programs (via a stub program).
I'd call that a voilation !
: - performance
I've nothing to compare with - I connect with a 28k modem and the throughput
depends on what my ISP had for breakfast. Seems as fast as netscape direct
from the proxy server machine.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....