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Re: SOCKS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Mon Feb 5 07:48:24 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 12:05:03 +0100 (MET)
Hi,
In linux.dev.net, article <XFMail.960202190958.duxmike@iafrica.com>,
Mike Kilburn <duxmike@iafrica.com> writes:
>
> I tried both SOCKs and masquerade. Masquerade was so much easier for me
> I really would like to know why some people like SOCKs. Am I missing something?
SOCKS is an application-level set of gateways. Therefore it can do things
like user-based accounting and authorization.
The masquerade code, while pretty cool, only translates addresses. That's
all it does, but if that's all you need, masquerade is better than SOCKS
because you don't have to do the copy from and to user space.
--
If you have to think about it, it's too late.
--
Matthias Urlichs
