Every computer that uses TCP/IP has 65535 (incoming) port.
And there are 65535 outgoing port. Every internet application have a default incoming and outgoing port to make communications. The outgoing port does not matter what it is, and the application can dynamically change on the fly, but the incoming port is fix, furthermore, there are several default ports you cannot use because they are integrated and reseverved by the OS you're using....
For instance FTP communications' default port is 21, so you cannot forward an other application, except FTP, to the port 21, because that simply won't work. There are 3 part of Vidalia software package: tor, polipo and Vidalia. Tor makes possible connect to the Tor network. Default Tor port is 9050. Vidalia is a useful graphical user interface (GUI) to simple configure Tor. Polipo uses the 8118 output port by default.
Polipo is a proxy application which makes possible every TCP-IP stream in one stack send over the Tor network. In some cases only with Polipo possible to hide our real IP. For example, when we use Tor with a browser and it's using some browser plugins, like Flash, only the simple hypertext traffic will be encrypted and sent over the Tor network, but not the flash traffic, if we are using native Tor on the port 9050.
Usually in every program you'll find a possibility to configure it through an internet proxy, just select the SOCKS5 type, type 127.0.0.1 on the proxy address field, and give the port number 8118 or 9050.
Every computer that uses TCP/IP has 65535 (incoming) port.
And there are 65535 outgoing port. Every internet application have a default incoming and outgoing port to make communications. The outgoing port does not matter what it is, and the application can dynamically change on the fly, but the incoming port is fix, furthermore, there are several default ports you cannot use because they are integrated and reseverved by the OS you're using....
arakistor 11 months ago
For instance FTP communications' default port is 21, so you cannot forward an other application, except FTP, to the port 21, because that simply won't work. There are 3 part of Vidalia software package: tor, polipo and Vidalia. Tor makes possible connect to the Tor network. Default Tor port is 9050. Vidalia is a useful graphical user interface (GUI) to simple configure Tor. Polipo uses the 8118 output port by default.
arakistor 11 months ago
Polipo is a proxy application which makes possible every TCP-IP stream in one stack send over the Tor network. In some cases only with Polipo possible to hide our real IP. For example, when we use Tor with a browser and it's using some browser plugins, like Flash, only the simple hypertext traffic will be encrypted and sent over the Tor network, but not the flash traffic, if we are using native Tor on the port 9050.
arakistor 1 year ago
However if we choice Tor with Polipo, then every browser communications, including its every subsequent plugins' in the same TCP-IP stream
will sent over the Tor network, so if you want to set up a Tor
client first always try configure it to the port 8118, and if it does'nt
work, then try the port 9050. (With the Vidalia running in the background of course).
arakistor 1 year ago
Usually in every program you'll find a possibility to configure it through an internet proxy, just select the SOCKS5 type, type 127.0.0.1 on the proxy address field, and give the port number 8118 or 9050.
arakistor 1 year ago