begin quoting Michael O'Keefe as of Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:16:45PM -0700: [snip] > >I thought that's what the ssh bit did. > > Only if you either > a) tunnel specific ports, which is tedious to cover "all your bases" > b) ppp-over-ssh (which is a poor mans IPSec of some sorts if you want)
Or c) ssh into a box on the other side and run everything from there. Which is kinda what I was thinking. [snip] > So that I don't have to run CAT5 across the living room floor while I > sit in front of the TV Run it along the baseboard! Speaking of which, I need to put a jack behind the couch... :) [snip] > >We have warring interests -- the gift-culture nature, and the security > >sensibilities, and the desire for our gift-giving to not affect us in > >any way... > > I actually leave mine wide open, and have done for years. > Since I don't pay $/MB, and Cox gives me about 4Mbps (now, 2.5Mbps > previously), I don't worry too much about b/w usage. Exactly. Now, if your neighbor set up an IRCd server using your bandwidth connection, you might do something different, but so long as there's not serious abuse... > But when I setup my brothers in Australia over Xmas, I went the whole > hog, becoz it was for his film company, and > > a) they pay $/MB > b) they don't want anyone stealing their productions off their computers Yup. -Stewart "The only thing worse than stealing data is destroying it" Stremler
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