Phil,

While ssh would technically be a usable solution, using port forwarding via SSH 
is often not allowed by hard policy by many government and corporate agencies.  
(especially remote port forwarding [-R]) The ability to use standard in/out to 
forward bacula traffic would be a more elegant and versatile solution.  (port 
forwarding over SSH, which is forwarded over another binary like connect.c is 
extra overhead.  Also eliminates the need to make sure local and remote port 
collisions since stdin/out don't need unique TCP ports for concurrent backup 
sessions)

Item 2 is more directly to address the issue with "no remote port forwarding" 
policy conflicts, which there is no feasible solution other than breaking 
policy. (which is obviously not acceptable)

Karl

On 3/26/09 11:13 AM, "Phil Stracchino" <[email protected]> wrote:

Grindley, Karl wrote:
> Item 1:   Bacula Dir, FD and SD to support proxies
>   Origin: Karl Grindley @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory <kgrindley at ll dot
> mit dot edu>
>   Date:   25 March 2009
>   Status: proposed
>
> What:
> Support alternate methods for nailing up a TCP session such as SOCKS5,
> SOCKS4 and HTTP (CONNECT) proxies.  Such a feature would allow tunneling
> of bacula traffic in and out of proxied networks.

Sorry if I'm missing something, but ... is there a reason why an ssh
tunnel cannot be used in this case?  The use of ssh tunnels for Bacula
has, if memory serves, been documented for some time.


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