Proxy for HD8000

[VaHe4ka]

Is there a way to setup a proxy server for SV HD without connecting it to a computer? (something like nfusion has)

[gregralph]

Even with a proxy you have to be connected to a computer. What a proxy does is help hide your IP. I did some checking around, and I am not familiar with the SV that much, but Sonicview has threatened to ban anyone using a proxy. After reading some more, here is a method that is supposed to give you the proxy protection you want, and Sonicview does not object to this.

I have this config running and it has the same freezing that is present in the iHub as of todays date, no more, no less.....

List of stuff that is needed

VPN proxy account or access
OpenVPN program
Blackrock program

This is very easy to do.

1. Install OpenVPN on your pc
2. Extract key files (provided by VPN host) to program files/openvpn/config
3. Start OpenVPN (if you are using Vista, right click openvpn and select run as administrator then right click the openvpn icon in the taskbar and select connect.)
4. Open Ip config in SV
5. Use DNS set to no
6. Server IP = Your PC IP....(192.168.0.xxx)
7. Server port 1920
8. Open Blackrock
9. IKS Server --> www.svftaiks.com
10. Proxy Server --> Leave Blank
11. Blackrock Server --> same IP address used in step six
12. Save config in Blackrock and start

This configuration should be able to be used by any IKS device. The configuration will be different for some devices like the Nfusion. For the Nfusion a connection share will need to be established between the PC and Nfusion because the use of blackrock is not an option..

Thanks goes to lonster for this information.

[swingbozo]

OpenVPN = Virtual Private Network. This is different than a proxy.

A VPN connection builds a secure connection between two internet end points. A proxy routes your network connection through another server.

The good thing about a VPN is that anyone listening in on the conversation will not be able to understand that conversation. However, they are still going to know the endpoints of that conversation. If the server is busted all IP information on conversations to the client still shows up in the server logs.

With a proxy, the proxy slings those packets from the server out to the client computer. The nice thing about the proxy is the SERVER doesn't know where the actual client computer is. So with a proxy people can listen to the conversation but they don't know where the actual client endpoint of the conversation is. The only IP information on the server is the conversation to the proxy computer and not to the client itself.

Lastly no one can ban anyone from using a proxy. They can only ban the proxy itself. In that case you simply have to move to another proxy.