First, Alan, thanks for the pointer to fwtk - you were correct about
that being the package referred to in the HOWTO
I am curious though, Nicholas, why run socks5 and fwtk?
Matt Mozur
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> From: Nicholas J. Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Matt Mozur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: TIS Firewall/Proxy Server
> Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 4:50 PM
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> # > Am I looking at the wrong site - has TIS given up on the Linux
community?
> #
> # TIS gauntlet has never afaik been available for Linux. TIS also
provide on
> # a sort of free basis a set of handy firewall tools though. That I
suspect
> # is what the FAQ is referring to.
>
> The FWTK (which is what we are talking about, "Fire Wall Took Kit") is
> actually a set of proxies for telnet, ftp, www and a few others.
>
> FWTK is fast. Very fast. On the network that I manage, I wasn't able to
> get SOCKS5 to keep up with 100 win95 boxes hitting web pages (remember,
> netscape & ie both open up multiple connections to pull images) on a P133
> w/64MB of ram. Clients would receive time-out errors, connections would
> drop, etc... This may have been a configuration error on my part, but the
> easiest solution was to fall back to FWTK.
>
> FWTK is able to keep up on the same box without even breaking a load
> average of 2. Inetd has to be told to allow so many connection per
minute,
> but once set it really flies.
>
> I ended up running both proxies on the box. FWTK for the http-gw stuff,
> and SOCKS5 for everything else. Thank god for autoproxy.pac's :)
>
> G'day!
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