On Fri May 19 10:50:29 2006, Karim Bernardet wrote:
I have coded a client and a server which use a simple TCP protocol
to communicate. Each one is behind a firewall and to bypass the
firewall (outgoing connections permitted), I use ssh tunneling
between them. But now I have to install the client on a computer
which is behind a firewall too (outgoing connections permitted),
so problem ...
No problem at all. You reconfigure the firewall to allow your
protocol through. Simple, isn't it?
If you can't, or your administrator won't, then your protocol should
not be going through the firewall.
"Bypassing firewalls" is traditionally called "cracking". It's only
comparitively recently that people have felt the bizarre need to wrap
every protocol in HTTP in the belief that if they don't have to
reconfigure a firewall, this makes things more secure.
Dave.
--
You see things; and you say "Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
