Documentation
This page contains links to documentation for Dante. Documentation for each major release is kept separate, the other links on this page apply to Dante and SOCKS in general.
Frequently Asked Questions
- The Dante FAQ.
Reports
- Detailed performance analysis report, based on Dante 1.4.0.
- Performance analysis of Dante version 1.3.1 (looks at scalability and resource requirements in a real-world production environment).
- Report that looks at the new code for limiting connections and connection rates that will be found in Dante version 1.4.0: Analysis of the session limit functionality in Dante version 1.3.2.4 and later.
- Report with performance analysis of the real-time functionality in Dante version 1.4.0: Analysis of Real-Time scheduling functionality in Dante version 1.4.0.
Presentations/related blog postings
- Dante Presentation (PDF) from presentation held at BLUG.
- Blog post with analysis of Dante process with runtime of 326 days in production environment.
External pages
- Dvas0004 talks about providing user-based access control for Skype using Dante User-based access control for Skype.
- Thomas Kuhn and Achim Leitner provide a fine overview of the SOCKS v5 protocol at www.linux-magazine.com.
- Wiki at kartbuilding.net describing setup of Dante on Debian Linux.
- Blog post at TIQ'S TECH-BLOG covering setup of Dante with authentication on Debian Linux.
- For those looking to learn more about SOCKS, proxies and firewalls than most would care to know, Avi Kak at Purdue provides a chapter on this as part of his Computer and Network Security lecture notes in Lecture 19: Proxy-Server Based Firewalls. The complete set of notes is available here.
SOCKS related standards
- SOCKS4.protocol, SOCKS Protocol Version 4.
- SOCKS4A.protocol, SOCKS Protocol Version 4A.
- RFC1928, SOCKS Protocol Version 5.
- RFC1929, Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5.
- RFC1961, GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5.
SOCKS related IETF drafts
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-chap-01 Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol for SOCKS V5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-cram-00 Challenge-Response Authentication Method for SOCKS V5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-eap-00 EAP Authentication for SOCKS Version 5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-ext-00 Feature Discovery: A Generic Extension Mechanism for SOCKS Version 5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-gssapi-revisions-01 GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5 (updates rfc1961).
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-maf-01 Multi-Authentication Framework Method for SOCKS V5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-multiple-traversal-00 SOCKS V5 Protocol extension for Multiple Firewalls Traversal.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-pro-v5-05 SOCKS Protocol Version 5 (updates rfc1928).
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-ssl-00 Secure Sockets Layer for SOCKS Version 5.
- draft-ietf-aft-socks-v6-req-00 SOCKS successor requirements.
- draft-kitamura-socks-ipv6-01 SOCKSv5 Protocol Extensions for IPv6/IPv4 Communication Environment.