From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SBlaze Subject: Re: Need help have some questions... Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:39:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030825203905.32224.qmail@web40207.mail.yahoo.com> References: <1061843428.1507.86.camel@kermit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1061843428.1507.86.camel@kermit> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Ralf Spenneberg , nf --- Ralf Spenneberg wrote: > Am Mon, 2003-08-25 um 22.05 schrieb SBlaze: > > > Now, what does the circuit relay do? Does it just amplify the signal?= Or > does > > > it terminate, reconstruct and forward the information? > > >=20 > > Ralf seems to disagree that the second layer is a bridge... I never tho= ugh > of a > > bridge as a dumb proxy...but thats essentially what it is right?? Anyway > this > > isn't really the focus of what I want to know...=20 > Circuit Relay operates on Application layer. A typical circuit relay is > socks. It just forwards connections. >=20 > > So if I understand what Ramen is saying. It is possible to do this with= a > > module that could be loaded into iptables. Aside from the CPU argument= is > > there any other reason why this isn't being done? It seems to come up t= ime > and > > time again. > >=20 > You could, if you would write the module. But this is better done in > userspace.=20 > > > >=20 > > Again no one really shed any light on what I'm supposed to do here. What > proxy > > am I supposed to use? Everyone is saying use a proxy but no one is givi= ng > any > > specifics as to what kind or what software?. > Sure, I did: Use Apache. Apache can work as a webserver for you on your > Linux box and at the same time as a proxy for the Windows box. >=20 Currently I am using Apache and I have two sites vhosted on it. The only so= rt thing I really use my windows box for is web browsing/multimedia that sort.= ..it has no services available to the world. So thats whats confusing me is that everyone says use a proxy but I don't see how using a proxy can stop those unwanted requests. I'm trying to stop certain requests from reaching my web server which is my router/firewall/web/file server. So how is a proxy suppo= sed to help in this case? Everyone says it is but I just don't know much about "proxying" or proxying soloutions for that matter Thanks alot SBlaze > Cheers, >=20 > Ralf > --=20 > Ralf Spenneberg > RHCE, RHCX >=20 > Book: Intrusion Detection f=FCr Linux Server http://www.spenneberg.com > IPsec-Howto http://www.ipsec-howto.org > Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.o= rg =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D "Winky is not knowing how sir, winky is not knowing how?" -=3DWinky / Harry= Potter and the Goblet of Fire=3D-" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com