[H-GEN] Maybe some clues.

[Mark Suter]

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Lance,

> All works fine , ftp, www, etc etc. But for ICQ to work I need a 
> socks connection. I am running Squid and thought it was the same 
> as socks. Now the question is. Is Squid and socks the same thing. 
> ( a proxy server } or do I have to run them both. 

No, Squid and SOCKS are separate things.  You may want to run both,
though I'm not sure what your goal is.  For a single machine with a
dialup account:

    * You don't need SOCKS
    * Squid serves as a 'web proxy' and generally speeds things up at
      the cost of disk space and some processing power - generally
      worth it given a ~5KB/s modem.

For a private network:

    * SOCKS is one method to let the machines on the private network
      access the rest of the 'net.
    * IP Masquerading is generally better :-)

Here are a few good sites...

    http://squid.nlanr.net/
    http://www.socks.nec.com/
    http://www.monash.edu.au/mirror/ldp/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html

Yours sincerely,

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