Re: Question regarding using RSH protocol (not binary) over SSH

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

Hmm. If they're going to insist on using the rsh protocol directly, it looks
like their developers need to have their wrists slapped for re-inventing
their own personal wheel instead of using of the many wheels already
available to them. Seriously:


I quite agree and know just the person to do the slapping...

Then I'd look at tunneling rsh it over an SSH forwarded tunnel. That allows
the server to use rsh or an rsh like protocol, but allow it only from
localhost, over an appropriately managed SSH tunnel. That's generally much
easier to create and set up than a full VPN, and allows all sorts of extra
authentication or management of the tunnel.

Excellent, having looked back over the original attempt to use port
forwarding, I realized I had my port assignments screwed up. Its
actually remarkably simple, I guess it just took some SSH experience to
see it. Thanks muchly

Load Controller simulator - machineA
Load Server simulator - machineB

machineB% ssh machineA -R 514:localhost:514 sleep 9999999

Then, when machineB connects to the RSH port on localhost, it gets
forwarded to the RSH on machineA localhost. Now, I just have to
configure machineA to only listen on localhost, and I should be set.
Thanks everyone, I appreciate the insights and help.

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