Thanks for the links. Wouldn't the lazy man ssh -X work to cover your http? Just call the browser, fetchmail, email client of choice and all that off the other box?
I'm in Chicago today. What should any good geek go see in Chicago? On 2003.08.11 14:06 John Hebert wrote: > Sure, provided the "ad hoc" desktop has a wired NIC connected to the > Internet and a wifi NIC in ad-hoc mode. Ideally you would want to > setup that > desktop to be a software based WAP/router. See "Recipe for a Linux > 802.11b > Home Network" > (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/03/06/recipe.html) for > more > info. > > I use a laptop with wifi on my home network and ssh into other > machines > instead of using telnet. However I haven't yet setup a port forwarding > SSH > tunnel to protect my HTTP packets. I guess I naively trust that my > retired > neighbors are not hax0r geeks. :) > > Ah, just found this link for doing just that: "Using SSH Tunneling" > (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/02/23/wep.html). > > John Hebert > >
