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lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:745954 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:745954 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
[root@lockbox /usr/src/SCRIPTS]#
I am trying to connect to my wifes windows computer. It is running proxy software which allows me to connect to the internet but I want to be able to connect at the 'system' level. I can use konquerer without any problem to get online but I want to be able to use things like ping, nslookup, and all those other things that don't have proxy settings. Is there a way that I can do this.
Currently I can connect to the internet by using my wifes computer
(10.20.30.42) on port 8080.
Look on www.freshmeat.net for a progarm called "tsocks" it's a transparent socks program with libraries and a configuration file you can use to point to your wifes proxy machine.
It seems that the package that you suggested was exactly what I needed but the documentation seemed a little sparse.
Do I need to change any of my network settings. I am not sure exactly how the package works which means that I don't know what I need to change.
Here is what I can get so far.
I can telnet and have the hostname resolved but I cannot connect.
This is what I get.
# telnet bofh.jive.org 666
Trying 129.105.45.50
libtsocks: socks server refused connection
unable to connect to remote host: connection refused.
I cannot ping anything outside of my network succesfully. name resolutions seem to be working though.
It seems to me that I can send out ping requests and telnet requests okay but I just can't receive the information that it is trying to send back except for DNS info. I do have ipchains installed, but I really haven't messed with it at all since it was installed. Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.
I couldn't find any docs either. The homepage is http://tsocks.sourceforge.net, but it's blank. There is an article on Linux Gazette that explains linux as a socks client at http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/LG/issue51/tag/14.html and it includes links to a how-to. Best I can do. If your tsocks.conf is configured and your libraries are in the right places and you've added the $LD_PRELOAD environment variable it should work, that's all I had to do to get mine working. Anyway, check the article and weblinks above. Hopefully that will help.
I started reading that stuff, but it seems to be geared more to setting up and configuring a linux proxy. I am going to try and find a new proxy for the windows machine and see if that helps.
Does anyone have any idea where I am going wrong here. It seems that I can send out information but cannot receive it. If anyone has any suggestions about configurations or software ti use, I would greatly appreciate it.
I tried different proxy software on the windows comuter but everything seemed to be the same. I also tried changing a couple of settings with route and ifconfig but all it did was make things worse.
I just don't understand what is happening. Telnet is able to resolve the name to an ip address but it is unable to connect. My opinion is that I am sending out all of the correct information to the remote server but I am just unable to accept it when they try to send it back.
Here is another example of what is happening.
When I do this.....
[root@lockbox ~]# ping linuxdoc.org
PING linuxdoc.org (152.19.254.81) from 10.20.30.40 : 56(84) bytes of data.
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