Package: proxy
Version: 2.2.4
Revision: 1
Source: mirror:sourceforge:%n/%n-%v.tar.gz
Maintainer: Brad Robel-Forrest <brad@gigglewax.com>
HomePage: http://proxy.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL
Description: TCP port redirector and filter
Source-MD5: 8096408a5993c8ec84f86ee475680c73
DocFiles: README LICENSE proxy.filters_example
BuildDepends: fink (>= 0.24.12)
PatchFile: %n.patch
PatchFile-MD5: 7c4a87ae914ed1b6e015f4248295b4e4
PatchScript: sed 's|@PREFIX@|%p|g' <%{PatchFile} | patch -p1
CompileScript: make
InstallScript: <<
  install -d %i/bin
  install proxy %i/bin
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DescDetail: <<
Proxy is not a caching proxy server, but is more a port redirector
(which can be used for NATing packets behind a linux firewall). You
would set up Proxy to listen on a certain port and forward all traffic
that comes in on that port to some port on a remote machine. The
current version of Proxy only handles TCP, but there are plans to add
support for UDP. We also plan to add a caching engine to proxy at some
point in the future as well.  For every client that connects to proxy
on it's listening port, Proxy spawns a thread to deal with that
client.

Proxy can also do IP filtering, please don't confuse this with packet
filtering for which there is a huge differnce. Proxy can read the IP
address of a client and compare it with rules in a filters file to
determine whether or not to drop the connection.
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