On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 01:04, George Karaolides wrote: > > Hi, > > I need a bit more info. to start thinking about your question.
I'm still up, barely :-) > How do you connect from H to R? Through the Internet? Yes. > If so, does your Internet connection (that you use to connect H to the > Internet) have a > static IP address or a dynamic one? Static, permanent connection. > Another point: It seems to me as if you'll be trying to use a > server hosted at an ISP as a masquerading gateway for your home LAN. Hey, hold on a minute! You're _way_ off base. What? Server hosted at an ISP? No! > You > may well be able to do it, and the ISP may well not catch you at it, > for a while anyway, but if the ISP sees this as violating the service > agreement they have with whoever they're hosting the server for (you?) and > they do find out, you are in for trouble. For what? I won't be in trouble for anything. Please don't jump to conclusions. If I was trying to do something naughty I wouldn't be using my real name (and please note that I use my real name in _all_ my communications). Thanks anyway for being concerned. I only want to implement a very limited system for only specific browser traffic so I can perform searches on databases accessible at my Institution from my home computer (just like having a remote desktop, but as I say I'd like it to be more efficient). And I discussed it with my Department's computer support (his suggestion was to tunnel X through SSH). Even though I've never done that before I'd like to try and do it more efficiently (and also work more productively--If you go to save a document on a remote desktop it has only been saved to that computer. Then I'd need to use something like sftp to download it to my computer. Much better if I could operate as if I was at that machine). > The traffic won't be difficult > to spot; servers are expected to be serving out a lot of stuff, not to > have a lot of incoming traffic. Did I say there would be a lot of traffic or did I specifically say "for just some chosen traffic"? My Institution will be able to see all traffic going to my "R" computer. I would be very foolish to route personal traffic through my Institution's network. Regards and good night, Adam