Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Dan
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:07:00 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just checked and it seems that the OEM firmware on the netgear drops all ssh attempts to connect. :( Im sure your router's firmware isn't allowing ssh connections. The router itself does not offer ssh access to anyone. What

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 09:53, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': I am not sure what you mean by this, but I do hope you'll consider using a normal commodity PC as your router. He's already got a home router. Some Netgear model (see

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Dan
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:29:52 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want to take advantage of gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely want a dedicated solution -- the PCI bus just can't keep up. Maybe there's a solution in PCIe or PCI-X,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 08 January 2007 11:43, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you want to take advantage of gigabit speeds (or more than a dozen 100mbit ports) you'll definitely want

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 15:44, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': On Friday 5 January 2007 21:25, Mick wrote: OK. I don't think I need to run a full VPN

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 6 January 2007 05:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Finally, if your email program and browser are SOCKS aware, you could simply set them up to use your ssh connection as a SOCKS proxy. There's specific support for this in OpenSSH, so that you don't have to open ports

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 15:44, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 January 2007 14:22, Mick wrote: Hi All, Apologies for the off-topic post but I thought to ask here because there have been a couple of threads in the past where embedded Linux OS' for hardware routers were discussed and that may offer a solution to my problem. I would like to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Thiem wrote: What do you mean by tunnelling? Do you want an IP layer tunnelled through ssh? Bad idea! I means TCP over TCP which is bound to fail when the outer and inner TCP timeouts get out of sync. More about that here: Why TCP over

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 January 2007 14:17, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: What do you mean by tunnelling? Do you want an IP layer tunnelled through ssh? Bad idea! I means TCP over TCP which is bound to fail when the outer and inner TCP timeouts get out of sync. More about that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 5 January 2007 16:53, Mick wrote: More about that here: Why TCP over TCP is a Bad Idea http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html Hmm, that explains why running VCN through ssh gets a bit ropy at times? Do you mean VNC? So, is port forwarding for browsing and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 January 2007 17:00, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Friday 5 January 2007 16:53, Mick wrote: More about that here: Why TCP over TCP is a Bad Idea http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html Hmm, that explains why running VCN through ssh gets a bit ropy at times?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 5 January 2007 21:25, Mick wrote: OK. I don't think I need to run a full VPN. I just want to securely connect to my router at home while I am out about using public wifi hot spots and thereby to be able to connect to the internet using my ISP for browsing email. The only ports

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread kashani
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: For browsing the internet, the setup is just a little bit more complex. At least, you need a http proxy running on the router (like squid), then do port forwarding for ports 80, 443, etc. and set up your browser accordingly to use the proxy. This way, your http requests

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 January 2007 22:00, kashani wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: For browsing the internet, the setup is just a little bit more complex. At least, you need a http proxy running on the router (like squid), then do port forwarding for ports 80, 443, etc. and set up your browser

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread kashani
Mick wrote: I just checked and it seems that the OEM firmware on the netgear drops all ssh attempts to connect. :( $ ssh 192.168.0.1 ssh: connect to host 192.168.0.1 port 22: Connection refused Same story when I use my internet IP address (it times out). It seems that I will have to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy

2007-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 05 January 2007 15:44, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy': On Friday 5 January 2007 21:25, Mick wrote: OK. I don't think I need to run a full VPN. I just want to securely connect to my router at home while I am