Re: looking for hardware SSH Port Forwarding devices

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: 31 Jul 2003 08:41:46 -0400

>>>>> "SG" == News-Bluewin <shawngiese@bluemail.ch> writes:

    SG> Hello, I am the technical writer for a company making embedded
    SG> Linux Firewalls (www.apliware.com) and we just added SSH Port
    SG> Forwarding to our latest firmware. I was trying to make a
    SG> comparison to other products but I can only find
    SG> software... OpenSSH, SecureShell, F-Secure, Vshell.

    SG> Does anyone know of some actual hardware firewall products that do
    SG> this?

I don't know why you're drawing this distinction -- a standard Intel box
with a disk running OpenBSD and OpenSSH is just as much software running
on hardware as your product; just because yours is smaller and doesn't
have a disk doesn't make it any more "actual hardware." And plenty of
people use exactly such a machine instead of a product like yours.

Also, it's not clear what exactly you mean by "adding SSH Port Forwarding"
to such a product. Do you mean that you have an SSH server in it, allow
connections to it via SSH from the external network, and have now added
the ability to do port forwarding over such a connection? 

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net

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