Socks & DHCP questions.

[tnkgrl]

I''m really loving my Nokia 770 - it's giving my OQO Model 01+ a run for its money lately :)

A couple of questions:

1) Does anyone know how to configure a wireless (or phone) connection to use a Socks proxy server on the 770? The advanced settings only allow HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and automatic proxy configuration severs to be specified - no Socks servers.

2) Does anyone know why the 770 can't pull a valid wireless IP address via DHCP when I setup Internet sharing on my any of Mac sytems running OS 10.4.3, yet the 770 works fine when I setup Internet sharing on any of my PC systems running XP Pro SP2? Just FYI, both Mac and PC clients do pull valid wireless IP addresses, regardless of whether Internet sharing is setup on my Macs or PCs, so it appears to be a problem with the 770.

[tnkgrl]

I have an answer to my own question (1) above - more to come soon.

[thorbo]

tnkgrl,

I would love to know the solution to your socks issue. I am having the same issue (but with the n800).

Thor

[johnkzin]

Any news on the socks issue?

[brendan]

i run privoxy in front of tor. tor only listens to socks connection, which privoxy will forward to.

you may want to look into a proxy like privoxy to forward your traffic. privoxy is compiled for the 770/n800 and should do exactly what you need.

[johnkzin]

So, tor is providing the socks layer? How is that different than using "ssh -D"?

And, privoxy is just giving you an http proxy, right? not IMAP or any other protocols?

Running ssh as my local socks proxy is the easy part. The hard part is making sure all of the apps I use will talk to the local socks proxy port. Pidgin does. Claw-mail doesn't.

And, the N800 comes with a built-in setting for the http proxy ... so I don't see myself needing to run privoxy just for that. (though, privoxy is probably good for some other reasons, I'm just saying it doesn't sound _necessary_)