--- Ralf Spenneberg <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Currently I am using Apache and I have two sites vhosted on it. The only sort thing I really use my windows box for is web browsing/multimedia that sort...it has no services available to the world. So thats whats confusing me is that everyone says use a proxy but I don't see how using a proxy can stop those unwanted requests. I'm trying to stop certain requests from reaching my web server which is my router/firewall/web/file server. So how is a proxy supposed to help in this case? Everyone says it is but I just don't know much about "proxying" or proxying soloutions for that matter Thanks alot SBlaze > 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 ===== "Winky is not knowing how sir, winky is not knowing how?" -=Winky / Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire=-" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
