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There are methods of forcing programs to use SOCKS4-5 proxy's, such as socksify, tsocks and other LD_PRELOAD hijacking methods.

Is there a way of having a SOCKS proxy network device, such as one that shows up under ifconfig?

It would be nice to do policy routing against a SOCKS proxy.

Ash Palmer
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I am not aware of any such implementation. It's my feeling that it wouldn't really make much sense to try to embed SOCKS functionality at the level of the network device (OSI-RM layer 2, the link layer), since the SOCKS protocol requires the services of the network layer (layer 4). But I am always open to a good counter argument!

Steven Monday
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