Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:29:49 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> To: Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH Message-ID: <20080326172949.GA1634@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <bmvku313pgi672r8fgqiq39fn97csphos7@4ax.com> References: <bmvku313pgi672r8fgqiq39fn97csphos7@4ax.com>
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El día Wednesday, March 26, 2008 a las 10:54:41AM -0600, Elliot Finley escribió: > Hello all, > > I have an interesting project. I have several FreeBSD servers that I > will be deploying to remote locations. They will be sitting behind a > NAT. I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local server > sitting on a public IP. I need them connected in a way that will give > me remote shell access. > > Has anyone done this before? I'd rather not re-invent the wheel. Yes, I :-) You can make SSH connection from the remote servers to your server (bring them up at boot with RSA auth) and tunnel in them reverse the SSH port, check the -R flag of ssh(1). You can also setup OpenVPN as client on the remotes and server on the your side. mattihas -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?
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