then I suppose I'll use netcat. I suppose I put 'nc- p 5050' in a file somewhere. Could someone tell me which file? funny.... reading the man page for nc (trying to figure out how to get it to work) was a hoot! the copyright section is rather entertaining. check it out! here is the excerpt I was talking about: COPYRIGHT Netcat is entirely my own creation, although plenty of other code was used as examples. It is freely given away to the Internet community in the hope that it will be useful, with no restrictions except giving credit where it is due. No GPLs, Berkeley copyrights or any of that nonsense. The author assumes NO responsibility for how anyone uses it. If netcat makes you rich somehow and you're feeling generous, mail me a check. If you are affiliated in any way with Microsoft Network, get a life. Always ski in control. Comments, questions, and patches to hob‐ bit@avian.org. NOTES Some port names in /etc/services contain hyphens -- netcat currently will not correctly parse those unless you escape the hyphens with back‐ slashes (e.g. "netcat localhost 'ftp\-data'"). BUGS Efforts have been made to have netcat "do the right thing" in all its various modes. If you believe that it is doing the wrong thing under whatever circumstances, please notify me and tell me how you think it should behave. If netcat is not able to do some task you think up, minor tweaks to the code will probably fix that. It provides a basic and easily-modified template for writing other network applications, and I certainly encourage people to make custom mods and send in any improvements they make to it. Continued feedback from the Internet com‐ munity is always welcome! EXAMPLES For several netcat recipes, please see /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.gz and /usr/share/doc/netcat/README.Debian.gz. AUTHOR This manual page was written by Joey Hess and Robert Woodcock , cribbing heavily from Netcat's README file. Netcat was written by a guy we know as the Hobbit . On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Ed wrote: > Squid is a proxy server found at http://www.squid-cache.org/ > I would guess that apt-get thinks of it as squid-cache. > > Unless you already have Squid (doesn't sound like it) already set up - > this is a bit over the top just to let port 5050 past the firewall + > NAT. > If you have a home network, Squid is a good way to control access to > the Internet. If you have one computer on a broadband connection, then > just opening port 5050 should be enough, add forwarding if you have > NAT setup. Squid is a heavy service, other tunneling tools exist like > nc (aka netcat) or ssh or stunnel that will be much easier to set up. > > Once you are set up, you should check to see which service you have > listening at port 5050 with something like "netstat -ta" or wireshark, > etc > > Happy Holidays - Ed > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: