Secure MSN and ICQ chat

[Tony Frank]

Hi there,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:49:58PM -0600, Nicol?s de Bari Embr?z G. R. wrote:

> Right now i have an tunnel with IPSEC to another FreeBSD Server the one is
> on a secure network and on a different building, what i was thinking to
> do, was to install a proxy on the Secure FreeBSD server and configure the
> MSN/ICQ clients to use that proxy so only that traffic could go out using
> the secure network.
> 
> I would like to know if there is a better option for securing this
> communications, or if this idea is fine and what proxy software do you
> recommend to install for doing this.

If you dont mind configuring all your users then you can use a SOCKS proxy 
on the secure FreeBSD server.
I use 'nylon' from ports for this purpose quite effectively (although only for a home
network of up to about 5 clients)

Another option is to simply route the MSN/ICQ traffic across to the other server.
Either route everything through the ipsec link to the other server (ie make it your
default route) or if you know the MSN/ICQ server IP range you can just route 
the specific subnets.

Regards,

Tony