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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:01:05
Message-Id: 200701051553.14465.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Router for ssh tunnel/SOCKS proxy by Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
1 On Friday 05 January 2007 14:17, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
2 > Uwe Thiem wrote:
3 > > What do you mean by tunnelling? Do you want an IP layer tunnelled through
4 > > ssh? Bad idea! I means TCP over TCP which is bound to fail when the outer
5 > > and inner TCP timeouts get out of sync.
6 >
7 > More about that here:
8 >
9 > "Why TCP over TCP is a Bad Idea"
10 > http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
11
12 Hmm, that explains why running VCN through ssh gets a bit ropy at times? So,
13 is port forwarding for browsing and emails through ssh a bad idea then?
14
15 --
16 Regards,
17 Mick

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