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Just in case someone's still interested in SocksCap, it's moved to a new URL (I suspect the company was spun off Nec): http://socks.permeo.com/cgi-bin/download.pl

Just use tor and save yourself the trouble of switching proxies over and over. Then you can script it if you want.

http://tor.eff.org/
http://www.socks.permeo.com/Download/SocksCapDownl oad/index.asp

Is it just me ?

I really think slackware linux should include some BASIC server apps like PostgreSQL, Squid, Socks5, UnrealIRCd, etc.

do you ?

The RFC, the server, or the client?

The RFC, the server, or the client?

Got a SOCKS proxy? Try SocksCap Don't have a SOCKS proxy? Create one with ssh -D :)

After a couple hacking incidents and virus outbreaks, my school decided to impose a firewall on everyone which put a stop to gaming with anyone off campus. Anyway, those of us lucky enough to have a cable modem or dsl at home just set up proxys on those boxes and used SocksCap to make programs using winsock transparently go through and use the proxy instead of trying to get to the net from the firewall.

Sounds like it'd be a good solution for you to do something similar.

Game performance took a hit though, because of all the extra hops that added.

Being a student and employee of a State univeristy for the last 4 years, I hardly see how this is news. 4 years ago, Napster started eating bandwidth and was blocked because of the costs. It's increased every year with "kids" coming in and expecting to be able to download the lastest CD they saw on MTV for free. Last year our university installed a packet shaper and instantly saw an improvement in "mission critical" applications, but still allowed people to use the P2P applications they always whined about not getting.

Now the real problem is no longer bandwith - it's controled however we want - but we are now considering blocking Kazaa for a completely different reason. We get at least 5 notices from the MPAA a week of students violating the DMCA by sharing movies. Just the headaches we have to go through with dealing with these is enough to warrant the blocking of this service. While I personally don't care what we do, I'm sure that there'll be lots of whining if we do. It doesn't seem to matter how much we tell people that the MPAA and RIAA are actually watching, they think that they can't get caught.

As far as the original question of what to do. Your university said that web traffic has highest priority. I'd recommend that you get HTTP Tunnel and the high speed subscription ($5) and perhaps e-Border for using any programs that don't support SOCKS. This is just a work around that I've discovered works well when needed and it's used by so few people that it's unlikely it'll be stopped soon (that is until I posted it on Slashdot).