Looking for a good multiple protocol proxy!!

[Neal Hamilton]

Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:40:11PM -0600, Neal Hamilton wrote:
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>>I am looking for a proxy server  that has the following features.
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>>1. multiple protocols    .... http/s,  socks 4/5, ftp, irc, nntp, smtp, 
>>etc...   The ability to add plugins to support more protocols . You know 
>>what i mean,, may not be through protocols but somehow the ability to 
>>support more protocols if needed.
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>>2. Authentication .....  Preferably i would like the proxy to be able to 
>>use my Openldap for authentication,, or maybe a radius ....but i must 
>>have authentication as i dont want some to have access at all and others 
>>access to certain protocols only.
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>>3. scalable, fast
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>>4. Opensrc.. :)
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>Ports: security/fwtk
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>	I think it does most of what you want... However it is a
>toolkit: some assembly required, batteries not included.  See
>http://www.fwtk.org/fwtk/
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>	Cheers,
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>	Matthew
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Thanks matt for your help. Do you know  what kind of auth. it can use? I 
already have a openldap setup for all my qmail users to auth. to and 
would like to use the same ldap server and maybe database if possible.  
I am trying to centralize all our authentication to ldap.