Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-24 Thread Trent Gemmill
As far as finding which tcp ports are accessable, I have seen two programs which might be of assistance: firewalk: http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/ and tcptraceroute: http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/ I haven't actually tried either, the former is beyond what I neded, and the

Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-24 Thread David Smith
>> Sysadmin or Login had an article last year about using ssh as a VPN >> by tunneling PPP though it which would give you full network >> connectivity. > >Do you have a link to this article? I'd love to read it. http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/~sigos/projects/ssh/forwarding/ http://sites.inka

Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-24 Thread Robert A. Book
> Sysadmin or Login had an article last year about using ssh as a VPN > by tunneling PPP though it which would give you full network > connectivity. Do you have a link to this article? I'd love to read it. --Robert - To unsub

Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-24 Thread Harmen van der Wal
Mark Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > I've tried using HTTPort to > tunnel, and have also tried using Harmen van der Wal's VNC client (although > even this required learning more about Java than I knew before - now FA rather > than its square root) - I get as far as the password scree

RE: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Peterson
This is only SSL encrypted, so i won't mention the name, but you can imagine it's a monolithic state with only one ISP (well, actually 3, but they all leave the country through the same network). It's caused me hours of fun (not), but in the same way I learnt about windows and VW Golfs, broken th

Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-23 Thread David Smith
>Anyway, if port 22 is open, and if you can install an SSH client on >your end and an SSH server on the other end, you can "tunnel" >virtually any connection through the SSH connection. If the computer >on the other end is any flavor of Unix (including Linux) it probably >already has an SSH serve

RE: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-23 Thread David Brodbeck
mode that doesn't encrypt. -Original Message- From: Robert A. Book [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall Anyway, if port 22 is open, and if you can install an SSH client on your end and an SSH se

Re: VNC through evil nasty firewall

2001-10-23 Thread Robert A. Book
> I am behind a country wide firewall. No ICMP packets can get through and even > port 119 is blocked. Ports 20 ,21, 23, 25, 80 and 110 are open, but I'm not > sure about any others as any port scanner tells me all ports (even 80, 20 and > 21) are blocked, which is clearly not the case, so I