On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:53 PM, laurent <laur...@logiquefloue.org> wrote: > Helmut Jarausch a écrit : >> >> On 1 Dec, laurent wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it a common thing, or really easy to do, to redirect the content from >>> a server to another one? >>> >>> Like launching an lil app telling the port to listen and then get all >>> data travelling there?? >>> >>> >> >> You might consider ssh tunneling >> >> google for these 2 words, e.g. you get >> >> http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-tunnel.html >> https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html >> http://members.shaw.ca/nicholas.fong/vnc/ >> >> and many more. >> >> Helmut. >> >> > > So it means I could always connect to internet through my remote server. > Anywhere I am on this planet I connect to my server and it/he get the > content for me. > Kinda sweet. > Does it mean it could balance/regulate and augmente my bandwith power for my > workstation? > > Laurent
Well, if you mean always connect to internet through your remote server in terms of bypassing a firewall or silent proxy, possibly but not guaranteed (and likely against whatever agreement you have that put you in a position to be behind that firewall or proxy anyhow). To use it for that purpose, you would have to be able to, at the least, get to your remote server... which is just somewhere else on the internet itself. As for augmenting bandwidth for your local system, using the remote one... not really, no. Whatever link you use to get to the remote server is likely to be the same you're going to use to get to anywhere else on the internet, and it's that last link that tends to be the most limiting factor on speed. I have, however, used a slow link to connect to a system I had on a faster link somewhere, downloaded the files I wanted on that system, then pulled them off onto a usb drive when I was physically with that system the next time... but trying to pull from that system to where I was controlling it from would have been the same as, if not slower than, pulling those files directly from the original source. So an all around yes, but no, answer ;) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
