howtoforge.com — Have you ever wanted to ssh to your Linux box that sits behind NAT? Now you can with reverse SSH tunneling. This document will show you step by step how to set up reverse SSH tunneling. The reverse SSH tunneling should work fine with Unix like systems.
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data33Sep 21, 2008
Imagine the following scenario:You're building an intranet for some company and you feel like working a little from home, or just checking up on the server. However, you have no access to their firewall so you can't open any ports (besides, your boss don't want the intranet to be public). Then you could set up an SSH server at home and have the intranet server autossh to your SSH server with a reverse tunnel. That way, you could SSH to your homeserver with the intranet server as destination and remote control it from anywhere.
gentooianSep 21, 2008
It's cleaner to just setup a VPN service on the NAT gateway (or if that is not possible, set it up on an internal machine behind the gateway and forward the ports to it).
data33Sep 21, 2008
Unless you run it through port 443 where all they can see is encrypted traffic going over a port where encrypted traffic is supposed to go. At least I think so, correct me if I'm wrong.
jagalbraithSep 22, 2008
If average users don't know this and don't need to know this. How come GotoMyPC, PC ANYWHERE, VNC, DAMEWARE, and WebEX are so popular with Windows users? I think people (even average surfers) sometimes have a need to contact their PC at home.
thekubrixSep 22, 2008
As a couple have already mentioned, this seems rather pointless when it's simply better to setup port forwarding...
piperidoneSep 22, 2009
Yay, beginner linux tutorials. Here's one for Windows users: .::[[ WooT ]]::. <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/d3158Y3" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/d3158Y3</a>
piperidoneSep 22, 2009
Roflmao, you're kidding! This is really cool guys, he's right.Well, I'm bored I think I'm going to go grab my fleshlight.
realillusionsSep 22, 2009
...this article is a f**king year old. Get a goddamn life.