From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rpjta-0004zP-Uo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:10:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA6C2E0C45; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B25E0C1D for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20971 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2012 17:06:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 24 Jan 2012 17:06:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 18001 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:08:43 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions Message-ID: <20120124170843.GW5190@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: e4bba803-e633-4ebb-ab0f-3be74c56decc X-Archives-Hash: ddb0c7ad47608ed12d9082689b7bc26a I know, in general, what proxies do -- caching, filtering, and bypassing firewalls. I have even written a couple of very special purpose proxies. Now I need one for work, and don't realy want to write another custom special purpose when it seems there must be a canned one which can do the job. We have some vendors who transact business over special ports with custom protocols. We pay for these connections, and we only have two of them, good enough for QA, but when a developer needs to test code, they have to drag their machine over to QA and schedule time with one of these connections. What we need is a proxy which can take any number of connections on our side and funnel everything into one or two vendor connections. I don't know enough of the proxy jargon to know how to describe it. I imagine some kind of NAT. No filtering or caching; firewall penetration will be taken care of elsewhere. Any suggestions, or proxy education hints? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o