Doug,

That is exaclty my situation. My son is at a school and is behind a file. My home system is behind a file will.

the vtund simple solves that problem by creating a tunnel and then you can directly ssh to any of the systems.

Heres what I have

son's system --- filewall ---Internet ---- filewall--- my system
                                                       other systems on
                                                       my local network
After the vtund program heres what I tet

Sons system<------>my system(acts as a router)
                 other systems on my home network

http://vtun.sourceforge.net/

I discovered that telnet works best since the tunneling software encrypts and compresses.

It took about 5 minutes to set up.



Chip

Douglas Kojetin wrote:
hi all-

thanks for all the comments. let me explain my setup better (i gave a poor description of it before):

we use a sonicwall firewall, and behind it are several computers. i have two IP addresses: one for the firewall unit, and one that i use for port forwarding through the firewall to a computer (IPs made up). the firewall is in 'stealth' mode.

internet
--- firewall ('external' ip address: 10.0.0.0 with a web-visable hostname; internal ip address: 3.0.0.0)
-- box 1 ('external' port forwarded ip address 10.0.0.1 with a web-visable host name, which points to the internal ip 3.0.0.1)
-- box 2 through 5 (internal ip 3.0.0.2 through 3.0.0.5)


what i usually do is:

# ssh to the port forwarded, web accessible box
ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# ssh from that machine to other machines behind the sonicwall firewall that do not have port forwarding hostnames/ip addresses)
ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]


maybe my setup is inefficient? should i setup in my firewall the second IP address (10.0.0.1) to port forward SSH at higher ports to the other boxes? can i do that (say, 2222 for box2, 2223 for box3, 2224 for box4, and so on)?

thanks,
doug


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