I think we are talking apples and oranges here. If their IP address is dynamic,
IN THE ABSENSE OF ANYONE RUNNING SOCKS OR DOING IP MASQUERADING, they are sunk.
> All they know is their dos telnet program telnets to the unix machine on
> campus and anywhere else, and the win95 machine is able to use netscape,
> MS browser, telnet, ftp, etc... just fine, no configuration involved other
> than making my machine (internal network ip) the gateway.
>
> Would someone please explain to me what the benifit of socks is over
> masquerading?
SOCKS runs on the earlier kernels, and you don't have to patch and rebuild your
kernel. With a production box, this is important, especially in a heterogeneous
environment, where you might not be able to do IP masquerade with a non-linux
kernel.