Re: IP TUNNEL / was Re: doesn't anybody use tunnelling / vpn?
Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> 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
hi. i have no clue about all this fancy stuff. sounds
delightfully cool. if you get it straightened out,
PLEASE post a 'SOLVED' message so that the rest of us
dunces (speaking for what i hope is a large group and
not just me) can learn from your experience...
by the way -- HOW did you set up those tunnels?
what package, what command, what script?
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