Keith Pitcher writes: | Living in rural slow connection land, I've been playing around with | satellite Internet. The problem is the company only has Win | drivers. (Linux driver is in the works, but no plans to open source it, will be | released as a binary - the bastards) | | Anyhow, to get the download speed of the satellite it uses a http proxy and | a socks5 proxy. This works fine for things that allow proxies or socks. But | there are a lot of things that don't support it. | | Is there a way to "socksify" everything my freebsd box does, so no | matter what I do, I can just point it to the socks machine and it works?
"runsocks" works for most apps as long as they use a shared libc and don't link to libc_r. If they use libc_r you need to make a libc_r shim for that. Also a libc shim for Linux would be needed for Linux apps that use a shared libc. Now I did find that Netscape and runsocks/socks gateway had trouble with https type transfers. Doing a packet capture it would do an unencrupted request, fail and then reture with an encrypted request. This confused the state of the proxied connection. | Would also be handy to have a way to "socksify" the box when it acts as a | network gateway, so I'd only have one really strangely configured machine and | the rest would be normal. You might be able to do a nat like thing to a socks proxy via divert. Another work-around is to run a "gateway/router" thing on a Windows box and then point your machine to that gateway and it would socksify the transfer to the other network. This actually works well except for depending on a Windows box. Not knowing enough about these things but slightly interested in DirectWay for our trailer I've read about interfaces that go to Ethernet or 802.11b. I wonder if these can automatically do that since I don't use Windows I would need that type of solution. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
