> I'm at a remote location for a few weeks. I have internet access just
> fine and dandy, but the IT department refuses to unblock the SSH port
> so I can check some of my other mail accounts. This is very
> frustrating to me, and it seems like they are mostly just unaware of
> what SSH is. Seems like a lot more mischief happens over port 80.
>
> In any case, I was wondering if anyone's come across any web based SSH
> (or failing that, a telnet) proxy. I found MindTerm which is a Java
> SSH applet, but it still tries to run out the same port on your
> computer.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -j
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> On 5/2/06, David Segonds <EraseMEdavidspam_OUTTakeThisOuTsegonds.org> wrote:
> > Did you have a look at Hamachi? It is a very neat tool. My home
> > firewall blocks all incoming traffic but using Hamachi, I am still
> > able to connect using ssh.
> >
> > The tool can be found at http://www.hamachi.cc/
> >
> > http://grc.com/securitynow.htm#18 "Hamachi Rocks" presents an
> > independent description of Hamachi and explains in more details how it
> > works.
>
> Hm....interesting. While I'd like to avoid having to leave the
> computer at home on all day, it's an interesting idea. I suppose I
> could also do VNC, though I guess this will be faster as all I'll be
> passing over the network will be my actual ssh session rather than the
> video of my ssh session on another machine.
>
> Do you know if this sends _all_ your IP traffice through Hamachi, or
> do you select which applications to tunnel? Also, I'm curious how it
> deals with dynamic IPs on the host computer. Well, off to the docs!
>
> Josh
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