Re: IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?
Missed the start of this thread. I need to do some tunnelling as
well. Here's the setup. I use my school's smtp/imap/news
servers. The servers can only be accessed from cs.ubc.ca (at least, I
haven't had any luck using them from elsewhere). My isp is not
cs.ubc.ca. I'm currently getting around this problem via a messy ssh -L
hack; namely, setting up port forwarding between my home machine and a
server at school, then running a noninteractive hanging program on
the other end to keep the tunnel open. In this way I have set up three
pipes/tunnels,
localhost:6025<->remotehost:25,
localhost:6119<->remotehost:119, and
localhost:6143<->remotehost:6143.
It works but the tunnels break sometimes (like when I suspend my
machine) and I have to restart them occasionally.
Anyone have a better way? -chris
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