From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 28 6:59:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE79937B401 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:59:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9426043F85 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1SExCXR042942; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:59:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h1SExCGf042941; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:59:12 +0100 (CET) From: "Patrick M. Hausen" Message-Id: <200302281459.h1SExCGf042941@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> Subject: Re: problems with getting through firewall using CVSup In-Reply-To: <3E5F77B4.4392E9FD@cnrm.meteo.fr> To: Igor Pokrovsky Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:59:12 +0100 (CET) Cc: "Patrick M. Hausen" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL92 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi! > But is there any way to do anything without asking firewall > admin to open 5999 port? No, there is not. Well, there is, sort of ... Please, people! If Port 5999 is blocked, the responsible person doesn't want you to use CVSup. You will have to clear that issue. Of course with the help of someone outside of your company or a system sitting at your home which is connected to the Internet you could use an SSL tunnel or an SSH tunnel or ... ... provided that ports 443 or 22 are permitted, that is. But how happy do you think your admin will be if he ever finds out? HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Technical Director -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Scheffelstr. 17 a Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76135 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message