[ILUG] compressed tunnels

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Mon Feb 26 12:22:22 GMT 2001


kevin lyda said:

> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:56:18AM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
> >  Swweeet. How much effort is it to setup on the far end ? I'm thinking
> > setting up ssh to listen for tunneling connections on Antefacto's firewall
> > (which runs squid).
> 
> i thought i'd posted it before.  well here ya go, enjoy.  as always i
> expect that you'll choose good passphrases for your public keys, that
> you've set yourself up for authorized_keys authentication, etc, etc.

BTW there's also an VPN-over-SSH howto out there somewhere.

However, has anyone got a similar setup that the Windows SSH client can
handle?  Proprietary clients are OK.  We've got a few Windows-laptop-using
"road warriors" in here, and IPsec is just a nightmare of the highest
order, esp. when it meets a NAT firewall... :(

--j.




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