Krzys Majewski wrote: > > Missed the start of this thread. I need to do some tunnelling as > well. Here's the setup. I use my school's smtp/imap/news > servers. The servers can only be accessed from cs.ubc.ca (at least, I > haven't had any luck using them from elsewhere). My isp is not > cs.ubc.ca. I'm currently getting around this problem via a messy ssh -L > hack; namely, setting up port forwarding between my home machine and a > server at school, then running a noninteractive hanging program on > the other end to keep the tunnel open. In this way I have set up three > pipes/tunnels, > localhost:6025<->remotehost:25, > localhost:6119<->remotehost:119, and > localhost:6143<->remotehost:6143. > It works but the tunnels break sometimes (like when I suspend my > machine) and I have to restart them occasionally. > Anyone have a better way? -chris
hi. i have no clue about all this fancy stuff. sounds delightfully cool. if you get it straightened out, PLEASE post a 'SOLVED' message so that the rest of us dunces (speaking for what i hope is a large group and not just me) can learn from your experience... by the way -- HOW did you set up those tunnels? what package, what command, what script? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/
