[CLUE-Tech] Advice sought: should I use SSH or not?

[Brandon N]

well, that makes it a bit harder, here is basically how a firewall can
be pierced (is in the company I work for)

work ----- firewall --- home

firewall allows most outgoing connections, but very few incoming,
assuming people inside the firewall are safe

now, I ssh from work to home, set up port forwarding on that connection
and leave it up.  
Now I go home, I have a private network with my machine at work.

For your situation, try a program similiar to this:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/corkscrew/

Brandon
--- Roger Frank <rfrank at rfrank.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 April 2001 10:20, you wrote:
> > The basic answer is, if it's available, use it.  
> >
> > You can do a lot more than just telnet connections with ssh, you
> can
> > use it to set up a VPN, pierce firewalls, encrypt X windows
> traffic...
> 
> Hmmm.  Pierce firewalls, you say?  I went to school today after
> setting up
> ssh on my home system and promptly found that the firewall put up by
> the school district would not let me make the connection to my fixed 
> IP address with ssh.  Yet I can ping it.   I sent email to the Powers
> That Be
> and they said it's policy and there are no exceptions.
> 
> In the interest of my further technical education, is there more
> about firewalls and ssh, and is this related to IP tunneling in some
> way?
> Not that I would actually want to pierce the school's firewall, of
> course.
> 
> Roger Frank
> 


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