Re: [squid-users] squid with socks

Thanks a ton for responding to my query.
Can SOCKS be part of squid.
I mean does SQUID provides the functionality of SOCKS too??

Thanks in advance.

On 18-Oct-06, at 3:58 PM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> ons 2006-10-18 klockan 11:44 +0530 skrev Om:
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>> I want to what is a socks server,
>>
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> SOCKS is a generic proxy protocol for proxying of any TCP based
> application. It dosen't know details of the proxied protocols, and is
> designed only for proxying not caching.
>
>
>> Many of the times the users on my LAN would require to connect to
>> machines on internet using ssh.
>> Will socks server help me in doing that.
>>
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> Yes.
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>> What are the advantages of using a socks server.
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> Supports any TCP/IP protocol, almost.
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>> How to setup socks support to the squid server.
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> Just install a SOCKS proxy daemon next to Squid. Both runs happily on
> the same server.
>
> There is several free SOCKS servers available.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ss5 is one.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
Received on Tue Oct 24 2006 - 02:10:39 MDT