Re: Peer to Peer using Putty?

From: JasonW (no_at_no.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 18:58:21 GMT

"Create a tunnel" refers to making a VPN connection between two computers.
Basically I would like to encrypt all communications in a peer to peer
session. For example, if I run a VNC session to a remote computer, I would
like that session to be inside an already established encrypted session.
I've heard that PGP has some sort of client to client VPN software, but I
didn't know if Putty or some other ssh software could accomplish this.

-JasonW

"Richard E. Silverman" <res@qoxp.net> wrote in message
news:m21xwfaho5.fsf@darwin.oankali.net...
> >>>>> "JW" == JasonW <no@no.com> writes:
>
> JW> I'm quite new to ssh and so please bear with me. Can I use Putty
> JW> to create a tunnel between two computers on a network (or over the
> JW> Internet) when neither is a server?
>
> No. PuTTY is an SSH client; you need an SSH server on the other host.
>
> The phrase "create a tunnel" is vague; what are you trying to accomplish?
>
> --
> Richard Silverman
> res@qoxp.net
>

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