That's just it -- I normally use 443 as a way to get through firewalls with ssh. But at the company I work for (I'm a consultant), EVERY port is locked down or pushed through a socks server. Hence my need to get a functional socks filter...
Andrew Markebo wrote: >Just a quick thought about firewalls and ssh'ing through them.. > >We had a firewall that allowed https-connections, and well, you can >use this to connect to a ssh-server, by telling ssh to use a wrapper >script to fire up the connection, get in touch with me and I can dig >it up.. > >Meanwhile, using a socks server, well basically it should be up to the >application, not cygwin to handle this, so if you find a cvs >supporting socks off you go.. :-) > > /Andy > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
