[Gllug] how do I ssh between different machines both behind 2 separate NA Ted firewalls

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Mon Mar 24 15:34:55 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:23, James Bailey wrote:
> At 14:41 24/03/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have been asked to make ssh connections between various machines which
> >will be behind different NATed firewalls.  AFAIK this can not be done
> >without redesigning the firewall some thing I am told can not be done.
> >Anyone out there come across this kind of problem before and found a
> >suitable solution.  Links to suitable RTFMs appreciated if I have missed
> >something obvious.
> 
> Sounds like a job for freeswan. http://www.freeswan.org/
> 
> Nope, no good, VPN was my first thought but it is classed as messing with
> the firewall, I am thinking about port forwarding which maybe allowable.
> This problem is really about sell first solve later and as the contract QA
> tester they are now looking at me as if I can rewrite RFCs.
> 
> BTW sorry for outlook but they won't give me a decent Linux desktop here.
If you have a box with ssh outside the firewalls you can log into it
using the -R argument to allow you to port forward port 22 on the box
behind the firewall to a random port on the external machine.

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Peace Jim
> 


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