Firewalls: benefit of proxy-server

Firewalls
(January 1995)

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Subject:	benefit of proxy-server
From:	jon @ nytimes . com (Jon E. Price)
Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:34:32 -0500
To:	firewalls @ greatcircle . com
Cc:	gordy @ nytimes . com, stan @ nytimes . com

What are the main benifits/reasons for using a proxy-server as part of a
firewall?

What are the main advantages/disadvantages of using socks vs. a tis toolkit
based firewall (maybe a brief summary???)?

Someone implied that tis was better, but I don't know why.

Jon

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