Re: SSH Tunnel through firewall- Help needed

From: Brian Pence (bpence_at_celestialsoftware.net)
Date: 07/17/03 

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:26:57 -0500

Right. Local port can be any port number as long as you tell the
client what to connect to. I just assumed this was a Windows box
and there wouldn't be a telnet server already at 23 to conflict.
Surely, if you're using Linux at home, you'd probably want to
pick something else. Perhaps 2323?

Brian

"Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net> wrote in message
news:m2vfu1ud6l.fsf@darwin.oankali.net...
> >>>>> "BP" == Brian Pence <bpenceNOSPAM@celestialsoftware.net> writes:
>
> BP> establish an SSH connection to your firewall from home.
> BP> Enable a "local to remote" forwarding for local port 23.
>
> This can be any free port number at all, not just 23 -- in fact it would
> be better if it were a random ephemeral port, so that 1) it doesn't
> conflict with any local telnet server, and 2) it doesn't require the SSH
> client to be privileged. I realize that both are less likely in this
> particular instance since the client is a Windows box, but still.
>
> --
> Richard Silverman
> res@qoxp.net
>

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