Hi All, I think that I have confused myself with this. I am behind a firewall/http proxy which seems to only allow outbound connections on ports 80 & 443 for web browsing. This is not enough for me, as I would like to use my mail client to send and receive mail from behind the firewall.
I tried connecting to ssh servers which listen on different ports, besides tcp/22 and I was not successful. This is probably an indication that the internet gateway machine only accepts connections for packets that have a destination to ports 80 & 443. If the above is correct, am I right to assume that to be able to run a tunnel through this internet gateway I should run something like: ssh -L 2222:localhost:443 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or are ssh packets somehow distinguishable by their headers, so that a cleverly crafted firewall will still identify them and drop them? -- Regards, Mick
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