Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:12:01 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: "gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu" <gsi22419@gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu>, "melange@yip.org" <melange@yip.org>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Netscape multitasking less smoothly? Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.40.0111160811280.296-100000@den2> In-Reply-To: <E164PUc-0004s5-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Pete French wrote: > As an aside, anone gotany idea why this might work one way > througha firewall but not the other ? I have a box behind a > firewall at work and a box out on the main internet. Port 22 > is tunneled through the firewall so I can ssh into the work > machine from outside quite happily. In the reverse direction the firewall > allows TCP connections to be made outward (using NAT). > > If I am at work I can ssh to the server machine and using -X start an xterm > (or any other X application on it) quite happily. > > If I am at home I can ssh from my home BSD box to them server and use -X > to run X apps their which display at home. I can also ssh onto the > work machine through the firewall, but when I do that then the -X option > does not work. All three machines are running 4.4-STABLE, but this has > never worked for any release of FreeBSD. > > The home machine acts as a gateway to an internal ether using ppp -nat, > would this be the source of the trouble ? I had assumed not as ssh -X works > to the server sirectly connected too the internet. Any suggestions gratefully > received... IIRC SSH uses TCP/6000 for X forwarding. -- Regards, Juha Removing sig! For great justice! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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