Re: Automatic port forwarding software for Windows

From: William Hooper (whooperhsd@earthlink.net.NO_SPAM)
Date: 02/16/03 

From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd@earthlink.net.NO_SPAM>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:16:35 GMT

"Julian Hsiao" <madoka@novastar.com> wrote in message
news:159063bc.0302152030.60e1fe29@posting.google.com...
> "William Hooper" <whooperhsd@earthlink.net.NO_SPAM> wrote in message
news:<iea0i-h4p.ln1@snowball.private.whooper.org>...
>
> > I'm not sure of your logic. You want a program to listen on port 1143
for
> > traffic then start SSH to tunnel localhost:1143 to remote:143? Why not
just
> > have an SSH client running and be done with it?
>
> Because either I have to open and close the tunnel manually everytime,
> or I leave the tunnel open forever.

The second case is basically what you are asking for. You will be forever
running another program to listen to the port.

> The tedium of the first case is
> exactly what I want to avoid, while there are other issues with the
> second case. By opening a tunnel I'm also creating a shell to the
> remote host, which I don't want to leave unattended for long periods
> of time.
>
> Julian Hsiao
> madoka@novastar.com

Not wanting a shell hanging around I can understand. It took some searching
since I forgot the name, but you might want to check out Tunnelier (
http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier.html ) which will let you open a tunnel
without having the shell open on your desktop. 

--
William Hooper
My mind not only wanders; sometimes it leaves completely.

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