On Thursday, August 21, 1997 2:26 PM, Kevin Brown -
NetComm[SMTP:Kevin .
Brown @
NetComm .
ie] wrote:
> Using setup like this, we have ( for cost, cheap cheap etc) used not
socks
> but the Linux Firewall/ipfwadm with sendmail open on an external server (
> ie outside the firewall) and allowed the clients to POP through the
> firewall.
One problem with this is that you might need to use ip masquerade along
with ipfwadm if you are using non-registered addresses on the internal
network. I'm assuming the original poster was using SOCKS to solve that
problem. SOCKS has a (slightly) better authentication and accounting
mechanism than just letting ipfwadm/ipmasquerade do all the work for you.
--
Gene Lee
genel @
inforamp .
net
genelee @
ca .
ibm .
com
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