HISTORY Originally I was looking for a simple SOCKS5 Server (with user/pass auth) that would run as a non-root user on FreeBSD. I checked the FreeBSD ports for various SOCKS5 solutions and tried them all, only to discover that each one had a reason why it would not work, or why I could not use it. I figured this could be done in perl, but found that there was no well maintained perl based solutions. I hacked together this solution (with help from public domain scripts) and cleaned it up, ready for release. Its simple, a feature I intend to maintain, however there is scope for much more potential, especially with user feedback. You can read the full story here: http://www.hm2k.com/posts/freebsd-socks-proxy-for-mirc