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AF - Active Port Forwarder v0.5.5 - README
Copyright (C) 2003,2004 jeremian - <jeremian [at] poczta.fm>
===================
================================================================================
GRAY-WORLD.NET / Active Port Forwarder
==========================
The Active Port Forwarder program is part of the Gray-World.net projects.
Our Gray-World Team presents on the http://gray-world.net website the projects
and publications we are working on which are related to the NACS (Network
Access Control System) bypassing research field and to the computer and
network security topics.
================================================================================
=======
SUMMARY
=======
INTRO
1. INSTALLATION
1.1 Instructions
1.2 Required libs
1.3 Tested platforms
2. USAGE
2.1 afserver
2.2 afclient
3. EXAMPLES
3.1 tcp mode
3.2 reverse udp mode
4. BUGS/PROBLEMS
NOTES
THANKS
================================================================================
=====
INTRO
=====
Active port forwarder is a software tool for secure port forwarding.
It uses ssl to increase security of communication between a server and a client.
Originally, it was developed to forward data point to point. However, the need
for bypassing firewalls in order to connect to internally located computers
influenced the further development of the project.
AF is dedicated for people, who don't have an external ip number and want to
make some services available across the net.
Moreover, zlib is used to compress the transferred data.
Using one, permanent data/control channel with flow control / packet buffering
provides good performance and reasonably small latency.
Multiple clients allow to create more sophisticated tunneling scheme.
================================================================================
===============
1. INSTALLATION
===============
1.1 Instructions
----------------
1. Download the compressed sources from http://www.gray-world.net/pr_af.shtml
2. Unpack them with tar zxvf
3. Type "make".
4. If something goes wrong - mail the author or post a message on
http://gray-world.net/board/
1.2 Required libs
-----------------
1. openssl - http://www.openssl.org/
2. zlib - http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
1.3 Tested platforms
--------------------
1. Linux:
Gentoo, Slackware, Mandrake - built without any problems
2. Freebsd:
4.4, 4.9 - have to use patch from project homepage
3. Windows:
win32 - cygwin version is available on the project homepage
================================================================================
========
2. USAGE
========
2.1 afserver
------------
Options:
-n, --hostname - it's used when creating listening sockets
(default: name returned by hostname function)
-l, --listenport - listening port number - users connect
to it (default: 50127)
-m, --manageport - manage port number - second part of the active
port forwarder connects to it (default: 50126)
-t, --timeout - the timeout value for the client's connection
(default: 5)
-u, --users - the amount of users allowed to use this server
(default: 5)
-C, --clients - the number of allowed clients to use this server
(default: 1)
-U, --usrpcli - the number of allowed users per client (default: $users)
-M, --climode - strategy used for connecting users with clients (default: 1)
Available strategies:
1. fill first client before go to next
-c, --cerfile - the name of the file with certificate
(default: cacert.pem)
-k, --keyfile - the name of the file with RSA key (default: server.rsa)
-f, --cfgfile - the name of the file with the configuration for the
active forwarder (server)
-p, --proto - type of server (tcp|udp) - for which protocol it will be
operating (default: tcp)
-O, --heavylog - logging everything to a logfile
-o, --lightlog - logging some data to a logfile
-v, --verbose - to be verbose - program won't enter the daemon mode
(use several times for greater effect)
--nossl - ssl is not used for transfering data (but it's still
used to establish a connection) (default: ssl is used)
--nozlib - zlib is not used for compressing data (default:
zlib is used)
--pass - set the password used for client identification
(default: no password)
-4, --ipv4 - use ipv4 only
-6, --ipv6 - use ipv6 only
-h, --help - prints this help
2.2 afclient
------------
Options:
-h, --help - prints this help
-n, --servername - where the second part of the active
port forwarder is running (required)
-m, --manageport - manage port number - server must be
listening on it (default: 50126)
-d, --hostname - the name of this host/remote host - the final
destination of the packets (default: the name
returned by hostname function)
-p, --portnum - the port we are forwarding connection to (required)
-k, --keyfile - the name of the file with RSA key (default: (none))
-u, --udpmode - udp mode - client will use udp protocol to
communicate with the hostname
-U, --reverseudp - reverse udp forwarding. Udp packets will be forwarded
from hostname:portnum (-p) to the server name:portnum
(-m)
-O, --heavylog - logging everything to a logfile
-o, --lightlog - logging some data to a logfile
-v, --verbose - to be verbose - program won't enter the daemon mode
(use several times for greater effect)
--pass - set the password used for client identification
(default: no password)
-4, --ipv4 - use ipv4 only
-6, --ipv6 - use ipv6 only
-l, --load - load a module for user's packets filtering
-L, --Load - load a module for service's packets filtering
================================================================================
===========
3. EXAMPLES
===========
3.1 tcp mode
------------
local network |FireWall| Internet
||
|| User 1
|| /(tcp)
AF Client <---Encrypted/Compressed channel---> AF Server
/ || | \(tcp)
/(tcp) || (tcp)| User 2
/ || \
Http server || User 3
||
The use of it is extremely simple. Let's suppose we want to create a http server
on our computer and we are behind a masquerade or a firewall:
1) We have to find some machine on the net with an external ip and a shell
account.
2) Use "make" to compile everything on that machine. (you can freely remove the
afclient and client.rsa files)
3) You can edit the config file or just type from the console (to use the config
type -f <cfgfile>) :
$ ./afserver
This will work, if you want to use default values:
- hostname will be taken from hostname function (it would be ideally, if
there is appropriate registration in /etc/hosts)
- server will be listening for users on port 50127
- server will be listening for client on port 50126
- server will be for maximum 5 users
- server will forward tcp packets
- there will be no logging and no verbose messages
- there will be no password identification
- ip protocol family will be unspecified
4) We use "make" on our machine (we can delete everything apart from afclient
and client.rsa)
5) We are typing from the console:
$ ./afclient -n <name of the server> -p 80
Where <name of the server> is a string like : 'bastion.univ.gda.pl' or
'153.19.7.200'
6) We can now enter with a web-browser to: <name of the server>:50127 and we
will enter to our computer in the fact.
3.2 reverse udp mode
--------------------
local network |FireWall| Internet
|| (udp)
|| User 1-------AF Client
|| /(tcp)
AF Client <---Encrypted/Compressed channel---> AF Server
/ || |
/(udp) || (tcp)|
/ || /
Game server || AF Client-------User 2
|| (udp)
Let's see how to use af to forward udp packets. Suppose we want to create a game
server on our computer (udp port 27960 on our machine):
1) - 4) is the same like in example 1. (but we add option: -p udp)
5) We are typing from the console:
$ ./afclient -u -n <name of the server> -p 27960
Where <name of the server> is a name (or ip) of a host where our server is
running.
6) Connecting to our game is more complicated. The user must use afclient to do
this. He has to specify the server he is connecting to and the port, which
his program will be listening on:
$ ./afclient -U -d <hostname> -p <portnum> -n <name of the server> \
-m <server port>
Where <hostname> is the name of the user machine (who wants to connect to our
game). <portnum> is the port he will be connecting to. <name of the server>
is the name of the host where our server is running. <server port> is the
port on which the server is listening for users. In order to connect to our
game, the user has to connect to <hostname>:<portnum>.
================================================================================
================
4. BUGS/PROBLEMS
================
There are no known/open bugs at the moment.
================================================================================
=====
NOTES
=====
Active port forwarder is still under development, so please sent any comments,
bugs notices and suggestions about it to <jeremian [at] poczta.fm>
If you have some problems or want to share your opinions with others, feel free
to post a message at http://gray-world.net/board/
================================================================================
======
THANKS
======
Big thanks to the GW Team:
to Alex <alex [at] gray-world.net>
and Simon <scastro [at] entreelibre.com> for testing AF and a lot of advices.
Thanks to Ilia Perevezentsev <iliaper [at] mail.ru> who read and corrected the
README file.
And thanks for using this software!
LICENSE
-------
Active Port Forwarder is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License v2.0 and is copyright (c) 2003,2004 jeremian <jeremian [at]
poczta.fm>. See the file COPYING for details.
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