jpillora / jpillora/chisel

Explain Socks And How it works

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Description

Hello,

I find it hard to understand how socks works with chisel, read the documentation and found it hard to read.
Can someone give an example and walk me through a packet flow to see how the packet traverses chisel , ssh, proxy etc?

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Research direction

Start with the existing chisel documentation and trace the requested SOCKS packet flow through chisel, SSH, and the proxy layers. Done means a concrete example and a readable walkthrough showing how a packet traverses those components; no specific documentation file is named in the issue.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
documentation, networking
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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