SOCKS

[Jerry McBride]

I'm just getting around to look at SOCKS. I've never had an instance to 
use it and if anyone else here has the SOCKS experience, I have a 
question to ask.

It seems to me that whatever you can do In SOCKS, you can achieve in 
iptables. If this is the case, what is the compelling reason for having 
a SOCKS proxy?

Also, people say that SOCKS is the way to get around firewalls.... But 
don't you have to open a port in your iptables to let SOCKS get through?

Just curious.


Thank you...