From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 12:24:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AB215174 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA78858; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:24:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20529; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:46:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199906181646.RAA20529@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Brian Zhou" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh connection => network connection In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:53:56 PDT." <002801beb94e$f4afc460$0200000a@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:46:28 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If thru a firewall I can remote login from inside-host to outside-host via > socksified ssh, can I somehow turn that connection into a network > connection? My goal is to be able to ping outside-host from inside-host. > How? The inside-host is FreeBSD/Linux and outside-host is HP-UX. > > Options such as using socksified application are not feasible since the > firewall only allow ssh traffic to a particular outside-host. If you've got access to an outside machine you can use ppp(8) to tunnel through the firewall using something like set device "!ssh myexternalmachine /usr/sbin/ppp -direct in" > TIA, > > -Brian -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message