From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 15 11:12:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A3B37B417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:12:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 164Rvc-0007D3-00; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:12:00 +1300 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:12:01 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: Pete French Cc: "gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu" , "melange@yip.org" , "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Netscape multitasking less smoothly? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Pete French wrote: > 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... IIRC SSH uses TCP/6000 for X forwarding. -- Regards, Juha Removing sig! For great justice! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message