On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:51:31 PM UTC-4, kcrisman wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:17:23 PM UTC-4, Nils Bruin wrote: >> >> On Sep 4, 12:00 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Remark: I was about to suggest a VPN too. >> >> As a first approximation you could just use ssh remote port >> forwarding. If your mac is happy to accept ssh connections on >> localhost then you can forward, say, sage.math.washington.edu:10000 to >> your mac's lcoalhost:22 by exewcuting on your mac: >> >> ssh -R 10000:localhost:22 sage.math.washington.edu >> >> With that connection and port forwarding active, people can use >> >> ssh -p 10000 sage.math.washington.edu >> >> to connect to your mac. Since *you* initiated the connection from your >> laptop, Verizon's firewall doesn't come into play. sage.math's >> firewall does, of course. Since sage.math only allows incoming >> connections on arbitrary ports locally, people will have to be logged >> in on sage.math. I'd say that's a desirable security feature. >> >> > This isn't necessarily ideal for other reasons, but I may at least email > Volker later to see if something like this could work. > > >> Essentially, ssh already comes with all the tools for a DIY VPN. >> > I tried something like this at work between the two computers and it didn't seem to work, but maybe I did something wrong. Volker or others interested, email off-list to see if we can get one of these to work, if the other options don't work out.
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