[clue-tech] VPN over Internet

[David L. Anselmi]

Brian Gibson wrote:
> Sounds like what you need is the Linux equivalent of Windows Remote
> Desktop Assistant.  The person in need of assistance sends a Windows
> Messenger IM to the technical guru with a link to initiate a remote
> desktop session.  Works very well with XP and above and gets past
> NATs on both ends.  It probably gets past the firewall because the
> connections originate from inside each network rather than the
> outside.  I don't know of anything like that for Linux.... yet
> anyway.

How does it get past NAT and firewall from both directions?  Is there a 
middle-man?  Ah, maybe the IM server?

Dave