[Voyage-linux] Reverse SSH Tunnels

[Jordi Soucheiron]

It depends. For a single system it's really easy. If you need to connect to
hundreds of nodes... its more complex. But in any case in a week you should
be able to read all the documentation available and become a vpn guru
*Jordi Soucheiron*
Software Engineer

*DEXMA*
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jsoucheiron at dexmatech.com
2010/8/23 Robert <Robert at supporttime.com>

>  Hi Jordi,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. VPN sounds like an interesting idea, I’m worried
> that it’s a little overkill for what we need though?
>
> We simply need to gain SSH access from the outside world, we don’t need any
> other inbound services.
>
> How easy is it to configure a VPN connection that is self-maintaining, so
> we can ensure it’s always up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> On 23/08/2010 10:31, "Jordi Soucheiron" <jsoucheiron at dexmatech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
> There are several ways to do what you're asking, but provably you'll want
> to use openvpn with a custom configuration for each client (to be able to
> set a static ip to every single system) instead of reverse ssh tunnels.
> Have a nice day
> *Jordi Soucheiron
> *Software Engineer
>
> *DEXMA
> *Parc Tecnològic la Salle
> Sant Joan de la Salle, 42
> 08022 Barcelona
> t/f: [+34] 93 181 01 96
> www.dexmatech.com <http://www.dexmatech.com>
> jsoucheiron at dexmatech.com
> 2010/8/23 Robert <Robert at supporttime.com>
>
> Morning Everyone,
>
> I hope you all had a good weekend.
>
> I’m playing around today with reverse SSH tunnels. We often place our
> systems behind a client firewall and sometimes we don’t have access to
> configure port forwarding so that we can gain SSH access to our system from
> the outside world.
>
> I understand that reverse SSH tunnels would allow me to do this? I can
> configure our system to create a tunnel to the outside world which we can
> then use to bypass the firewall to gain access, is that correct?
>
> I’ve done some reading and it would seem that creating the reverse SSH
> tunnel is very simple. However, I need to ensure that the connection is
> established and maintained at all times.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with doing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
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