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Re: [Networker] NetWorker over SSH Tunnel?

2009-08-23 00:36:28
Subject: Re: [Networker] NetWorker over SSH Tunnel?
From: David Magda <dmagda AT EE.RYERSON DOT CA>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:31:19 -0400
On Aug 22, 2009, at 16:16, Davina Treiber wrote:

(3) An SSH tunnel requires that you connect to a port on the local
machine, whereas NetWorker connects to a remote machine. It might be
possible to do some sort of hack by messing with the hosts file, but
even if that was possible you would need to do this on both machines.

OpenSSH 4.3 and above support creating VPN tunnels on certain operating systems:

http://anoncvs.mindrot.org/index.cgi/openssh/README.tun?revision=1.2&view=markup
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2008/06/26/opensshs-vpn/

There's also PPP over SSH:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ppp-ssh/

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