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From: Ralf Spenneberg <lists@spenneberg.org>
To: SBlaze <dagent.geo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Netfilter <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Need help have some questions...
Date: 25 Aug 2003 22:30:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061843428.1507.86.camel@kermit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030825200507.25987.qmail@web40207.mail.yahoo.com>

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?
> > 
> Ralf seems to disagree that the second layer is a bridge... I never though 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... 
Circuit Relay operates on Application layer. A typical circuit relay is
socks. It just forwards connections.

> 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 time and
> time again.
> 
You could, if you would write the module. But this is better done in
userspace. 
> > > 
> 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 giving 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.

Cheers,

Ralf
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Ralf Spenneberg
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-25 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1061192932.1915.10.camel@kermit>
2003-08-18 20:13 ` Need help have some questions SBlaze
2003-08-18 20:52   ` Ramin Dousti
2003-08-23 20:51     ` SBlaze
2003-08-25  3:24       ` Ramin Dousti
2003-08-25 20:05         ` SBlaze
2003-08-25 20:30           ` Ralf Spenneberg [this message]
2003-08-25 20:39             ` SBlaze
2003-08-25 20:57               ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-08-25 22:40                 ` Ramin Dousti
2003-08-25 22:53                   ` SBlaze
2003-08-25 23:02                     ` Ramin Dousti
2003-08-25 22:35             ` Ramin Dousti
2003-08-25  5:54       ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-08-18 20:53   ` Wallwork, Nathan
2003-08-18 21:09   ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-08-18 21:14   ` Frank Smith
2003-08-15  9:29 SBlaze
2003-08-15 10:02 ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-08-15 22:09   ` SBlaze

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