choosing between gateways for different internet apps

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Vin

hey,

is there any way for me to route kazaa/p2p on my dialup connection and
everything else on my regular cable modem? i've read workarounds for
adding routes to a particular ftp site, nntp site, vpn server etc, but
haven't read
anything for routing traffic on an application level basis (is it even
possible?)

Alternatively does anyone know of a software that allows you to direct
port-level traffic to a particular network device (with something like that
i could dedicate/block a port for my dialup connection and use that with my
p2p
client app) OR even a proxy server that allows you to choose between network
devices for routing all in/out traffic??

best,
vin

ps: i HAVE to use a dialup connection for p2p as my cablenet provider has
enabled packet
filtering that disables all p2p applications (on regular/non-regular ports).
 
is there any way for me to route kazaa/p2p on my dialup connection and
everything else on my regular cable modem? i've read workarounds for
adding routes to a particular ftp site, nntp site, vpn server etc, but
haven't read
anything for routing traffic on an application level basis (is it even
possible?)
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No, routing is on an ADDRESS (not port or sub-protocol) basis.

If you visit mostly the same sites for these you can build routes (as it
seems
you did for other services) based on those addresses.
 
is there any way for me to route kazaa/p2p on my dialup connection and
No, routing is on an ADDRESS (not port or sub-protocol) basis.

If you visit mostly the same sites for these you can build routes (as it
seems
you did for other services) based on those addresses.
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then is it possible for someone to write a dummy proxy server that only acts
as a tcpip packet parser? what i mean is that the proxy server manually (and
automatically) adds routes for all requests that it receives to a particular
network device or gateway. with such a software i could configure my p2p
client app to use the proxy server (which will be pointed to my dialup
modem) and all other apps like outlook, internet explorer to connect
directly to the net using my cable modem?

best,
vin
 
then is it possible for someone to write a dummy proxy server that only
acts
as a tcpip packet parser? what i mean is that the proxy server manually (and
automatically) adds routes for all requests that it receives to a
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particular

To a programmer, a week-end is an infinite amount of time (and I am
a programmer) <grin> so yes, it is POSSIBLE but not likely nor likely
to work quite as you envision....

"Adding routes" for each connection probably doesn't even make sense
from a performance standpoint -- you would probably have to re-write
the IP stack.
 
then is it possible for someone to write a dummy proxy server that only
acts
particular

To a programmer, a week-end is an infinite amount of time (and I am
a programmer) <grin> so yes, it is POSSIBLE but not likely nor likely
to work quite as you envision....

"Adding routes" for each connection probably doesn't even make sense
from a performance standpoint -- you would probably have to re-write
the IP stack.
Click to expand...

hi herb,

i've read about some SOCKS servers for linux (dante?) that allow you to
choose the network device/gateway for outgoing traffic -- is there something
similar for windows, a http or socks proxy server that allows you to choose
with gateway you want to use? that would also do quite nicely because my
last resort option of purchasing vmware and then adding a linux/winxp
virtual machine to run my dialup modem seems quite tedious and silly.

best,
vin
 
i've read about some SOCKS servers for linux (dante?) that allow you to
choose the network device/gateway for outgoing traffic -- is there something
similar for windows, a http or socks proxy server that allows you to choose
with gateway you want to use? that would also do quite nicely because my
last resort option of purchasing vmware and then adding a linux/winxp
virtual machine to run my dialup modem seems quite tedious and silly.
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ISA supports SOCKS -- it is (mostly just) a Proxy standard.

I don't think SOCKS does what you want and if it does, I have no idea if ISA
can do "that part."
 
Neither the OS nor ISA can route traffic based on port numbers or protocol.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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