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Re: Firewall protects, so what directs?:(may be an easy workaround)



also sprach Pedro P Sacristan Sanz <psacrist@es.ibm.com> [2002.03.20.0847 +0100]:
> If you don't want change anything at this time, may be you could use an
> easy workaround if you are now using SSH in your firewall and web server:
> if you use the "-L" option, you could start a SSH session from your
> firewall to your web server and  forward every incomming connection to port
> 80 in the firewall to your web server...
> 
> your_firewall#ssh -L 80:10.10.0.10:80 awebuser@10.10.0.10
> 
> You only will have to be sure that you allow TCP port 22 from your firewall
> to your web server, and that your SSH configuration allows port forwarding
> (well, and may be you shoul monitor you ssh tunnel: if it goes down, it
> stops working).

have a look at my package at [1]

for the same functionality except for the encryption (you don't always
need it, and unencrypted is way faster). it does provide bandwidth
control as a nice goody on the side...

  1. http://www.madduck.net/~madduck/debian/iprelay/

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