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diff --git a/network/tsocks/README b/network/tsocks/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..53189ee010eb --- /dev/null +++ b/network/tsocks/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +tsocks allows non SOCKS aware applications (e.g telnet, ssh, etc) to use SOCKS +without any modification. It does this by intercepting the calls that +applications make to establish network connections and negotating them through +a SOCKS server as necessary. + +tsocks is based on the use of the LD_PRELOAD environment variable or the +/etc/ld.so.preload file, you'll need permission to use them (normally it's +allowed, but some customized kernels don't allow this procedure) |