Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:24:45 -0600 From: Anthony Chavez <acc@anthonychavez.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VNC multiplexer Message-ID: <m2vf3vcac2.fsf@pegasos.local> References: <m2slz5phe5.fsf@pegasos.local> <ef10de9a05062623421541aa59@mail.gmail.com> <m24qbfdykc.fsf@pegasos.local> <20050630215633.E90475@wolf.pjkh.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> wrote: >>> On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez <acc@anthonychavez.org> wrote: >>>> I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers >>>> behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via >>>> DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we >>>> intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames. > > I missed the first part of this, but would proxying the VNC > connections through an intermediate SSH server help at all? > > http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vnc_through_an_ssh_proxy > > You could setup individual SSH tunnels for each machine in question. > The tunnel would stay the same regardless of the IP... and the VNC > viewer would connect to localhost so you'd never really need the > server IP. This *might* work. I think that my client wants to be as non-intrusive on the users' workstations as possible, but we could always script up something to mass-deploy openssh and tightvnc "invisibly" to the users. Thanks! - -- Anthony Chavez http://anthonychavez.org/ mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org jabber:acc@jabber.anthonychavez.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBQsThsPAIdTFWAbdTAQoZVAgAjIbnkbKMiCZ4/BfIPFxx4bvLGnDUOjOY JuhMJf/maDB7HDnAipZ8I8cd1BpE1JW+P8+EM2+wje6bA+SdcfDzy6WFJTIkc0er SqVjsAj82JwBfOXE7tKbNZaw+R7JYazPVc5Kz4eliTIJxw/PnkJSjz3Io8F+Q5Vv rMbkX04y7mu4O/T1NRSG7jyvmW9E+3wlrtSdhWAD+7HeQwsaLBiZDcw6Ln5t3Jp+ PTFzYFlyGHKQ7e6qiVWyxyIeHc0JWb2sHFZk/quDqfUe8bOeyf1Uyxpy6T1CTWxv R6JpjHCM8wKbKX6KPSKyxPf7UzNVxg37a3A/P2waCaC2+qs00McPFw== =+2Xo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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