| Here's something I just thought of.
|
| Customers at a cybercafe often want to use more than just a browsers.
| They use ICQ, MSN messencer, Yahoo Chat, AOL Instant messenger, MIRC etc.
| These clients do not use http to connect to their servers and hence an
| http proxy is of no use to them. ICQ uses UDP which makes proxying even
| more complicated.
|
| We would have to use a socks proxy to get over this problem. I believe
| that there is something mentioned in the firewall howto about socks using
| ipchains or something, but I don't remember it in detail as it was a long
| time ago.
|
| We will have to look into the following:
|
| 1. setup a socks proxy, or some other way to get these clients connected
| 2. are there linux versions for all these clients?
| - mirc is no problem, I'm sure there are loads of chat clients that
| offer the same functionality.
| - there is a linux ICQ clone - can't remember the name, but searching on
| freshmeat will turn it up quite soon.
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LICQ
| - MSN, Yahoo and AOL need to be looked into. People are not going to
| stop using it, and cybercafe operators will not want to turn away
| customers.
You can be sure of one thing MSN is not going to provide a Linux
version
of the Software
|
|
| Philip
|
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