is there any place you can point newbies to that discusses the
subtleties of port redirection on Linux?

(or any other OS, for that matter)

J.

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Karl J. Runge
wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ken Ambrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > policy violation), is VPN via SSH.  Honest-to-goodness VPN, that is, no
> > pansy port-redirection. 
> 
> Wot!?  Only a pantywaist would tunnel PPP thru ssh!  Real-men (and Real-women,
> e.g. my wife :-)  build their own VPN's with ssh and a whole lotta port
> redirs (web, shells, X, vnc, ...).  Inelegant, yes, but it works around
> a number of the the other VPN issues (IPs, routing, DNS, ...) nicely.
> 
> Please note:  ;-)  (I myself use the ppp+ssh trick on occasion when it is
> more appropriate, but most of time I find a slew of port redirs optimal for
> what I do.)  
> 
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