Am Mon, 2003-08-25 um 22.05 schrieb SBlaze: > > Now, what does the circuit relay do? Does it just amplify the signal? Or does > > it terminate, reconstruct and forward the information? > > > Ralf seems to disagree that the second layer is a bridge... I never though of a > bridge as a dumb proxy...but thats essentially what it is right?? Anyway this > isn't really the focus of what I want to know... Circuit Relay operates on Application layer. A typical circuit relay is socks. It just forwards connections. > So if I understand what Ramen is saying. It is possible to do this with a > module that could be loaded into iptables. Aside from the CPU argument is > there any other reason why this isn't being done? It seems to come up time and > time again. > You could, if you would write the module. But this is better done in userspace. > > > > Again no one really shed any light on what I'm supposed to do here. What proxy > am I supposed to use? Everyone is saying use a proxy but no one is giving any > specifics as to what kind or what software?. Sure, I did: Use Apache. Apache can work as a webserver for you on your Linux box and at the same time as a proxy for the Windows box. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Spenneberg RHCE, RHCX Book: Intrusion Detection für Linux Server http://www.spenneberg.com IPsec-Howto http://www.ipsec-howto.org Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.org
