Re: How do I use a socks server with cygwin?

[Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:18:07AM -0600, CyberZombie wrote:
> You're saying that by using the Hummingbird product, you can ssh through 
> the firewall?

Yes.

> Can you elaborate how you did this?

Once the Hummingbird SOCKS proxy software is installed, all that you need
to do is create a socks.cnf file.  See attached for a sample.  This it!
You are done!  It's that easy!

If you are looking for just a ssh/SOCKS solution then try the following:

    http://www.imasy.or.jp/~gotoh/ssh/connect.c
    
This is what I used before I found the generic Hummingbird solution.

BTW, Shun-ichi GOTO has a cvs-socks solution (if you can read Japanese)
at:

    http://www.imasy.or.jp/~gotoh/ssh/
    
Jason

Attachment: socks.cnf
Description: Text document

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