Acronym of SOCKS

( Socket Secure ) Sox (SOCKS) is an internet protocol that network packets between the client and the server by the proxy server transfer. SOCKS5 also the possibility of the originality of the survey, users are also provided the only users identified to services.

Sox in the fifth layer (layer meeting) the OSI model works and any application that, as the Sox server is set, can the service on one of the ports, available on the server offer.

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