How can I get started with a SOCKS5 proxy?

What does a SOCKS5 proxy do?

How do they really work? what's the best protocol for it? SSH proxy vs. SOCKS proxy SOCKS5 proxies and SSH proxies 1.13.1 This section is a kind of pronunciation guide. It will give a high-level overview of the RealSocks proxy with a focus on the connection setup than the actual usage of the socks proxy. I will be referring to this as RealSocks in Negation for the rest of this document. By saying yes we do SOCKS5 like that we often tend to confuse two different domains: the socks proxy and the tunnel. Let's clarify that first. A socks proxy is not a tunnel. A socks proxy is a program acting as a middleman between a remote host (client) and an host (server) on a network, commonly called a tunnel. On Windows machines, SOCKS is used for Internet Connection Sharing (known also as Network Address Translation), it's the name of the Microsoft Internet Connection Sharing client protocol. (In future releases, it may become more complicated as we continue to support more VPN protocols. Much like VyprVPN's own similar protocol - PPTP.) The server/tunnel providing the socks proxy service is the remote host. The remote host providing the socks proxy service is usually a program on the client machine called a SOCKS proxy (or sometimes also referred to as a tunnelsmith program). So technically, what we are doing is setting up a tunnel-like service: this is a server that connects and verifies the real IP of the client. The tunnel is already up and running between our software and the remote host. We are not opening any sort of backchannel (tunnel) to the remote host. The remote host is temporarily notified about our existence. To understand further the difference between the socks proxy and the tunnel we will need to start exploring two of Socks' protocols: the SOCKS5 and the SOCKS4 protocol.2 From the very beginning when I've started using SOCKS5 proxy on my Windows XP machine: I was confused because, well, that doesn't make any sense., so Socks5 then is an add-on to Socks4?