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Subject: Re: SOCKS/xmosaic question
From: "Robert G. Moskowitz" <0003858921 @ mcimail . com>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 07:15 EST
To: firewalls <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
To: socks <socks @ syl . dl . nec . com>

>To the outside world, it will appear that all connections
>come directly from the firewall host running the SOCKS
>server, so things will work in most cases. Obviously trying
>to connect to any sites with the same IP addresses as your
>internal networks will not work.

Not quite true.  If the site with the 'illegal' (read not registered)
addresses also sits behind a firewall, the connection is to the firewall's
IP which HAS to be registered.

>Ultimately the illegal addresses should be got rid of if
>at all possible.

Stay tuned for developments on non-routed network addresses to handle
situations like this...

Bob Moskowitz
Chrysler Corp

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