PACKAGE NAME: tsocks-1.8.beta5-i486-1adi.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./Library/tsocks PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 58 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 150 K PACKAGE REQUIRED: PACKAGE CONFLICTS: PACKAGE SUGGESTS: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: tsocks: tsocks (1.8 beta5) tsocks a transparent SOCKS proxying library tsocks: tsocks: tsocks' role is to allow these non SOCKS aware applications tsocks: (e.g telnet, ssh, ftp etc) to use SOCKS without any modification. tsocks: It does this by intercepting the calls that applications make to tsocks: establish network connections and negotating them through a SOCKS tsocks: server as necessary. tsocks: tsocks: You can use openssh to create a local socks server, just type tsocks: "ssh -D 9999 user@server.dot" to create a socks proxy on port 9999 tsocks: that will tunnel your connection to "server.dot"