Can i use tor to route all wan traffic or just port 80 ?

Dennis Beekman · 2011-09-01 14:38:47

I was experimenting with tor today as there was a article in a old linux magazine i found...
Eventhough it works fine with firefox using the torbutton addon i was wondering if there would be a way to route all internet traffic like ftp & other things through tor aswell or just port 80 using firefox.

Does anyone know ? or have a alternative that would do the job ... just for the fun of experimenting offcourse.

Last edited by Dennis Beekman (2011-09-01 14:41:20)

Pajaro · 2011-09-02 06:25:20

AFAIK, tor is a socks proxy, so it should work for any kind of connection.

x33a · 2011-09-02 08:33:51

Tor does not handle udp, icmp traffic. Other than that it should be able to run any tcp traffic, i suppose.

Dennis Beekman · 2011-09-05 08:14:25

i have got to admit that i am not that up to speed with tor and other network tools... but with the tor client running or disabled my wan ip remains the same.
Only if i activate tor from firefox does my wan ip change and even then a tracerout run i a sperate terminal doesn't change from when tor was not active.

So either i am doing something wrong or tor isn't working the way it should :-)
Not that important though... i was just messing about.

x33a · 2011-09-05 17:03:09

Each client (browser, chat, mail program etc.) needs to be configured to use tor individually. Tor doesn't take over the full network, rather it runs as a seperate network / socks proxy.

You need to configure your application to use the socks proxy to be able to route its traffic through tor.

Dennis Beekman · 2011-09-06 07:45:35

thought so already.... it would have been cool to get that done... damm shame :-)

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#1 2011-09-01 14:38:47

Can i use tor to route all wan traffic or just port 80 ?

#2 2011-09-02 06:25:20

Re: Can i use tor to route all wan traffic or just port 80 ?

#3 2011-09-02 08:33:51

Re: Can i use tor to route all wan traffic or just port 80 ?

#4 2011-09-05 08:14:25

Re: Can i use tor to route all wan traffic or just port 80 ?

#5 2011-09-05 17:03:09

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#6 2011-09-06 07:45:35

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