[root@lockbox /usr/src/SCRIPTS]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
10.0.0.0 --- 0.0.0.0 ----- 255.255.255.0 - U - 40 - 0 - 0 - eth0
10.20.30.0 - 0.0.0.0 ----- 255.255.255.0 - U - 40 - 0 - 0 - eth0
127.0.0.0 -- 0.0.0.0 ----- 255.0.0.0 - U - 40 - 0 - 0 ----- lo
0.0.0.0 ---- 10.20.30.42 - 0.0.0.0 - UG -- 40 - 0 - 0 ------ eth0


[root@lockbox /usr/src/SCRIPTS]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:1A:79:2D
inet addr:10.20.30.40 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:46954 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:11 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xef80


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.

--- linuxdoc.org ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

(I ended this with a control-C)

I see this in tcpdump...

22:06:08.816096 eth0 > 10.20.30.40.32792 > 10.20.30.42.domain: 36708+ A? linuxdoc.org. (30) (DF)
22:06:08.819148 eth0 > 10.20.30.40.32793 > 10.20.30.42.domain: 39113+ PTR? 42.30.20.10.in-addr.arpa. (42) (DF)
22:06:08.822867 eth0 < 10.20.30.42.domain > 10.20.30.40.32792: 36708 1/0/0 A 152.19.254.81 (58)
22:06:08.824118 eth0 > 10.20.30.40 > 152.19.254.81: icmp: echo request (DF)
22:06:09.085099 eth0 < 10.20.30.42.domain > 10.20.30.40.32793: 39113 NXDomain 1/0/0 A 1.2.1.2 (78)
22:06:09.087241 eth0 > 10.20.30.40.32794 > 10.20.30.42.domain: 39114+ PTR? 40.30.20.10.in-addr.arpa. (42) (DF)
22:06:09.465415 eth0 < 10.20.30.42.domain > 10.20.30.40.32794: 39114 NXDomain 1/0/0 A 0.0.0.0 (78)
22:06:09.467589 eth0 > 10.20.30.40.32794 > 10.20.30.42.domain: 39115+ PTR? 81.254.19.152.in-addr.arpa. (44) (DF)
22:06:09.747176 eth0 < 10.20.30.42.domain > 10.20.30.40.32794: 39115 NXDomain 1/0/0 A 0.0.0.0 (82)
22:06:09.749011 eth0 > 10.20.30.40.32794 > 10.20.30.42.domain: 39116+ PTR? 2.1.2.1.in-addr.arpa. (38) (DF)
22:06:09.818878 eth0 > 10.20.30.40 > 152.19.254.81: icmp: echo request (DF)
22:06:09.984461 eth0 < 10.20.30.42.domain > 10.20.30.40.32794: 39116 NXDomain 1/0/0 A 0.0.0.0 (70)
22:06:10.819110 eth0 > 10.20.30.40 > 152.19.254.81: icmp: echo request (DF)

The last line keeps repeating until I stop the ping.