I use Dante on three clients' networks as well as my own and it works very well. Subscribe to their announcements list as they make new releases whenever they make (minor/bug fix) enhancements. Configuration is simple, but not all Socks compliant software supports authentication. Dante's configuration allows for multiple sets of allow/deny ACLs to cover all the possibilities. > I just did a quick search on Freshmeat and from the results it looks like > Dante <http://www.inet.no/dante/> is the choice for those who don't fit in > NEC's "free for non-commercial use" license. Supposedly Dante has > username/password authentication for Socks5 support in place. > > Has anyone tried Dante out? Perhaps someone could help and let us know if > it's any good, or maybe if there's another program out there that might > work better.