Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:35:58 +0000 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu, melange@yip.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape multitasking less smoothly? Message-ID: <E164PUc-0004s5-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011115111631.A5319@sdodson.com>
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> Why do all that when you can tunnel X through ssh? > > ssh -X hostname, can even make ssh exec mozilla and with > keys setup never have to type a password. As an aside, anone gotany idea why this might work one way througha firewall but not the other ? I have a box behind a firewall at work and a box out on the main internet. Port 22 is tunneled through the firewall so I can ssh into the work machine from outside quite happily. In the reverse direction the firewall allows TCP connections to be made outward (using NAT). If I am at work I can ssh to the server machine and using -X start an xterm (or any other X application on it) quite happily. If I am at home I can ssh from my home BSD box to them server and use -X to run X apps their which display at home. I can also ssh onto the work machine through the firewall, but when I do that then the -X option does not work. All three machines are running 4.4-STABLE, but this has never worked for any release of FreeBSD. The home machine acts as a gateway to an internal ether using ppp -nat, would this be the source of the trouble ? I had assumed not as ssh -X works to the server sirectly connected too the internet. Any suggestions gratefully received... -pete. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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