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Hi All, |
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I think that I have confused myself with this. I am behind a firewall/http |
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proxy which seems to only allow outbound connections on ports 80 & 443 for |
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web browsing. This is not enough for me, as I would like to use my mail |
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client to send and receive mail from behind the firewall. |
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I tried connecting to ssh servers which listen on different ports, besides |
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tcp/22 and I was not successful. This is probably an indication that the |
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internet gateway machine only accepts connections for packets that have a |
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destination to ports 80 & 443. |
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If the above is correct, am I right to assume that to be able to run a tunnel |
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through this internet gateway I should run something like: |
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ssh -L 2222:localhost:443 me@remote_sshd.com |
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or are ssh packets somehow distinguishable by their headers, so that a |
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cleverly crafted firewall will still identify them and drop them? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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