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  1. For all "simple" configurations, the provided installer script should
  2. work OK. However, a little explanation might be needed:
  3.  
  4. The SOCKS client needs to know when to (and when not to) attempt a network
  5. access via the SOCKS server. The reason it needs to do is that in typical
  6. networks behind a SOCKS proxy server, the "direct" network is accessed
  7. without the involvement of the proxy server. Only accesses outside that
  8. network need to go through the proxy. For example take the following
  9. network (the IP addresses are only examples; contact your network admin or
  10. provider for the correct addresses of your network):
  11.  
  12.  
  13.  Your computer      Other computers (that can be accessed without
  14.   192.0.2.46                         going through the proxy server)
  15.    _________         ______________ 
  16.   /         \       /              \
  17.    +-------+
  18.    |       |
  19.    +---+---+        |  ..........  |
  20.        |            |              |
  21.   <----+------------+------+-------+-------------> network 192.0.2.0
  22.                            |                       netmask 255.255.255.0
  23.                        +---+---+  \
  24.                        |       |  |  Proxy server
  25.                        +---+---+  /  192.0.2.1
  26.                            |
  27.                            |
  28.  
  29.                          \___/
  30.  
  31.                    The outside "world"
  32.  
  33.  
  34. In this case, you would give the following parameters to the installer:
  35.  
  36. Address of the SOCKS proxy server: 192.0.2.1
  37. Network address of direct network: 192.0.2.0
  38. Netmask of direct network:         255.255.255.0
  39.  
  40. Configured that way, all network accesses from your computer to the
  41. 192.0.2.[0-255] network would be direct accesses and anything outside
  42. that would be through the proxy server.
  43.  
  44. The configuration is kept in ENVARC:socks.conf. For more details on
  45. complex configurations, please visit the "official" SOCKS site at:
  46.  
  47. ftp://ftp.nec.com/pub/socks
  48.