Dante Server
...what a relief after dealing with the POS SS5 Socks software. There were a couple of glitches getting it going, but once running, ran solid and best of all, unlike SS5, it didn't crash all the time.
For basic information on SOCKS Proxy Servers, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS
For a SOCKS Proxy Server that actually works: https://www.inet.no/dante/index.html
Installation was fairly easy as someone made RPMs for my OS (CentOS 7);
- Their site: https://centos.pkgs.org/7/ghettoforge-plus-x86_64/
- URL for downloads (you'll need "plain" dante and dante-server RPMs): http://mirror.ghettoforge.org/distributions/gf/el/7/plus/x86_64/
- I like to stay within the "YUM boundaries", so I installed via YUM: yum install WhatEverRPMpackageName
The RPM is version 1.4.2, but the