Add SOCKS support
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- OCaml
- Stars
- 1.2k
- Forks
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Description
It would be good to
- replace the ad-hoc tunnelling protocol used to expose physical ports with SOCKS
- allow traffic from certain IPs to be tunnelled over SOCKS to a remote server. For example the registry traffic could be tunnelled but everything else left alone.
We could use the mirage-compatible library https://github.com/cfcs/ocaml-socks
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the existing ad-hoc tunnelling path for exposing physical ports, then examine the proposed mirage-compatible ocaml-socks library. Define how SOCKS should replace that protocol and how selected IP traffic, such as registry traffic, is routed while other traffic remains unchanged; completion requires both behaviors to work.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100