Re: ssh port-forwarding and UDP-connections

["A. Demarteau \(linux rules!\)" <linux@disnet.demon.nl>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk wrote:
> not really a laptop mailing list question, but you have mentioned a laptop so
> I guess it counts :)
;)

> The only ways I could think of you getting a secure UDP channel is to use
> IPSec (if it actually does UDP).  However as UDP is only used in
> games/video/audio streaming there shouldn't be a need for encryption,
> officially.  However for things like video/audio converferencing there should
> be encryption built into the package that will secure the connect for you.
ipseq is a lowlevel protocol-encryption system.
It works on the ip-layer, so tcp as well as udp can work.

> sorry I cannot be more helpful but in a word you cannot do ssh+udp=works :)
> 
> Alex
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Andor Demarteau
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