Derrick Hudson wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > | Cristian Gutierrez wrote: > | > Sam Halliday writes: > [ftp/http is bandwidth limited on university network, ssh isn't > limited] > | > May be they can use an external proxy via ssh. Say, they have ssh > | > access to host X where X is outside their university network and > | > can use a proxy on Y:8000 (Y could be X itself). Now they can > | > forward their localhost:8000 to Y:8000 ssh'ing through X, and set > | > APT to use localhost:8000 as a proxy. > | unfortunately thats sounds like the only available option, as non > | ftp/http source do not seem to exist. the problem is that i do not > | know anyone external to the network, with root access to a box, > | willing to give up bandwidth and ports for the cause :-/. thanks > | anyway though... ill ask around. > > You don't need root access on the remote machine to do ssh port > forwarding. (you would only need root access if you were > "RemoteForwarding" a port <1024)
interesting, ok, i think this could work, ill try to set it up for them on my machine to see, for now. anyone got any hints where i can read up about setting this kind of thing up? i've never done anything like this before, nor have i ever heard of it! cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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