SSH into the firewall, and use port forwarding to telnet from your local machine to your host. Everything secured via SSH and no need to load additional software on your firewall.
- Bob Coffman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Spakman Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:09 PM To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] busybox telnet? Hi Brad, >> But why do you want to connect to your accesspoint from the Bering- >> uClibc system instead of from a host pc? > >There is no host pc on this remote network ... just the firewall, an >access point and clients. So there isn't really another option for me. > > >According to http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html , >there is a telnet client in busybox in addition to the server. ...tee, >telnet, telnetd, test, ... > >If it's okay to have an ssh client on a firewall, I'm not sure i >understand why it's not okay to have a telnet client. Surely you don't >want a telnet server. > It's also not a good idea to have a ssh client on a firewall. If someone manage to break into your firewall you don't want him to have tools to hop further. >I don't know much about busybox - but i guess it would be possible to >ship a busybox+ package that replaces the /bin/busybox executable with >one having more features. So you wouldn't have to include it in the >default install. > The busybox program is part of initrd.lrp and the busybox symlinks are created at boottime in linuxrc. So you need a custom initrd.lrp package. You can build your own initrd package using the buildtool framework. > >Brad Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
