Using Proxies

SunScreen lets you set up proxies for FTP, HTTP, SMTP, and Telnet protocols. Although each proxy has different filtering capabilities and requirements, you can allow or deny sessions based on source or destination addresses of packets. Proxies share common objects and policy rule files. To start a proxy, you set up rules for a proxy in your security policy and activate the policy.

Use of these proxies does not require installing any additional client or server system software. Some changes, however, may be required in system configurations or user-supplied commands to access protected destinations through the proxies.