On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:54, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > > A friend (Tim, who is bummed he missed the dabo talk) just found > > out he needs to > > connect to a client's Ms Sql server. fine, this will be the 3rd ms > > server he is > > connecting to from the same linux box. then they said something > > like "we force > > the link to be encrypted." > > > > Um, is that supported on the linux side? If so, how? > > > > and will it effect connections to MsSql that are not encrypted? > > This is typically done via SSH tunneling. This uses SSH and port > forwarding in iptables to forward requests on port X on the client > through ssh to the server, where it is then forwarded to the original > port X. Google on 'ssh tunnel' for the syntax. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com Maybe Ed is right. You did say "link" so maybe the data is not encrypted. But the connection is.... John
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