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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:07:27 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP over HTTP?
Message-ID:  <20070820140726.GC1455@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <200708161122.l7GBMd2f097695@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <20070815013342.GA25882@rot26.obsecurity.org> <200708161122.l7GBMd2f097695@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On Thu, 16.08.2007 at 13:22:39 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Note, however, that some HTTP proxies are configured to
> disallow connections to arbitrary ports, for security
> reasons.  If that's the case for you, run you sshd server
> on port 443 wich should always be allowed by proxies
> (only possible if you don't already run a HTTPS server
> on port 443, of course).

If your company has a limited set of external IPs it's probably better
to redirect port 443 than to abandon HTTPS (whatever happened to HTTP +
STARTTLS, btw?)

pf.conf:
rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from $company to any port 443 -> ($ext_if) port 22

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak, and remove all doubt.



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