making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Elliot Finley
Hello all, I have an interesting project. I have several FreeBSD servers that I will be deploying to remote locations. They will be sitting behind a NAT. I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local server sitting on a public IP. I need them connected in a way that will give me

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Elliot Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all, I have an interesting project. I have several FreeBSD servers that I will be deploying to remote locations. They will be sitting behind a NAT. I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local server sitting on a public IP.

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, March 26, 2008 a las 10:54:41AM -0600, Elliot Finley escribió: Hello all, I have an interesting project. I have several FreeBSD servers that I will be deploying to remote locations. They will be sitting behind a NAT. I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Elliot Finley wrote: Hello all, I have an interesting project. I have several FreeBSD servers that I will be deploying to remote locations. They will be sitting behind a NAT. I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local server sitting on a public IP. I need them connected in a way

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Edward Capriolo
I believe the stunnel application is made to manager and restart tunnels like this. However stunnel is a wrapper application around reverse ssh tunnels, which someone has already mentioned. You may want to run your ssh server on tcp https 443. Because some firewalls will block outgoing things.

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Elliot Finley
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions... It looks like I have several good options. On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:40:24 -0400, you wrote: I believe the stunnel application is made to manager and restart tunnels like this. However stunnel is a wrapper application around reverse ssh tunnels, which