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CHAPTER 5
Additional SOHO
Features
SOCKS for SOHO
SOCKS is a network proxy filter that works with SOCKS-aware
applications such as ICQ. A typical SOCKS-dependent application
requires that several sockets be opened and made available to the
Internet. When a SOCKS-aware application (ICQ is SOCKS-aware)
registers with the SOCKS server, SOCKS is able to manage the
need of the application to have many ports open.
To use an application with SOCKS, the application must be
configured with the SOCKS server information. The SOHO has
limited SOCKS support included as of its version 2.0 firmware and
later.
Setting up your SOCKS application for use with the SOHO
requires no reconfiguration of the SOHO appliance itself. Your
SOHO acts as the SOCKS proxy. You must, however, configure
your application to be compliant with the SOHO implementation
of SOCKS version 5.