[linux-help] Re: OT: tunneling

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Koji,

If your firewall allows SSH traffic and you have SSH
installed on your server, you can use PuTTY to tunnel to
your server.  Within the PuTTY config, go to Connection,
SSH, Tunnels to set it up (the PuTTY Help file has a more
detailed description of this).

Curtis H.

--- Koji Hayakawa <sylf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It's not Linux issue, but this group seems to be
> knowledgeble in this area
> too...  (IP?) tunneling was mentioned briefly during
> tonight's meeting.
> 
> At my work, we have corporate firewall.  I have a test
> web site I would like
> to connect to.  The application on the web site requires
> the users to use
> https.  The test site runs https on port 81, which
> firewall does not like.
> Is there easy (or semi-easy, simple) solution to
> connecting to this site,
> other than going home to test the web site over lunch
> period?
> 
> The client machine is Win2k, and I would like to handle
> this without
> requiring additional software.  (PuTTY, maybe, if it
> would be any use)
> 
> Or does tunneling require set up on server side, and I
> should just opt out
> to going home?
> 
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