Hi, we use the tis firewall toolkit and the plug-gw that comes with it for this purpose. This is a generic proxy for any kind of tcp-connection/protocol. You can administer a permission table with individual access permissions based on host/network addresses. It's started via inetd. The tis toolkit containts some more proxies for telnet, ftp, smtp and X-Window, together with a couple of handy tools. I did some research quite some time ago covering any serious security issues with the tis firewall toolkit but did not find anything to worry about. It's quite easy to implement (thus minimizing the chance of accidentally opening security holes during setup) and well documented. Get it from http://www.tis.com/research/software/ Boris --- On 30-Nov-00 Olivier Hislaire wrote:

Hi,

I need to install a nntp proxy on my suse 6.3, and I tried acmennrp. When I start it, it justs stops without a single (error) message; I bet there is something missing. Since I cannot read java (sorry),and cannot find a clue of a documentation neither any logged message anywhere (yes, syslogd is configured and working all right), what else can I do ? Does anybody knows about using acmennrp (proxy mode only), or any other SW that woul do it ?

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