As far as I understand proxying there's caching and (from a security point of view) scanning the traffic for viruses, blacklisted URLs and whatever-you-want-to-scan involved. So you can't just proxy anything generically, because you don't have enough information about protocolls, who's involved and so on. As far as I understand your problem you need masqerading or NATting. You can install proxies for known applications/protocolls like ftp, http, e-mail (though proxy's not the right word, which would be mail-relay), irc, icq, ... rinetd is just portforwarding, if you want to forward one specific port (e.g. localhost:80) to another port on the same or on another computer (e.g. intranet.my.domain:80). rinetd provides one-to-one connectivity, not one-to-many, which, I guess, would be your motivation for installing a proxy. regards, Stefan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Robert Rottscholl [mailto:lv426@rinx.de] Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Februar 2002 12:19 An: suse-security@suse.com Betreff: [suse-security] rinetd as proxy Dear List, now I know what rinetd is and where I can find it. But now my main problem: Can I disable forwarding and instead use rinetd to proxy all tcp connections(not FTP and HTTP)? Ciao ;-) Robert Rottscholl - DE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com