two way ssh tunnel over a firewall

From: Phoenix (phoenixx__at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Date: 30 Dec 2003 12:30:48 -0800

    Hi, perhaps someone here can give a tip of how to proceed or some
    program that manages this:

    Problem:
    I have an ssh server on the inside of a firewall (work machine)
    I do not govern the firewall nor have any access to it.
    I want to connect to my ssh-server on the inside and get a terminal
    up.

    Ideas to solution (???):
    Make the server create a tunnel to an outside (read: internet) host.
    This host being my own machine or other server.
    So, my idea is to somehow make the server establish a tunnel and
    through this tunnel I should be able to ssh back to the
    server-machine.
    But HOW that would be done I do not know (I'm a rather ssh-newbie).
    The problem, as I see it, is since the server does not exist on the
    outside of the firewall that IT has to initiate the tunnel and at the
    same time be able to receive commands back via this tunnel (ie spawn a
    terminal session for me to interact with...)

    Thanks in advance for any ideas

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