Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:03:59 -0500 From: Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ssh tunnel - remote access through nat Message-ID: <715841970607251003o1d358d3dl894291f50a0b8053@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, I've got a box that's nat'd out to the internet. It is occassionally neccessary for me to access this box remotely. The obvious answer is: ssh -R 7777:localhost:22 remote.box cat run from the nat'd box where remote box is a place I pretty much always have access too from anywhere, anytime. The problem is that the connection between these two boxes is famously unreliable - so I need to ensure that this connection stays available. Unfortunately, the procedure for this is not obvious to me. I've thought about a cron job, as the connection would simply fail if it couldn't bind to 7777 on the remote box to listen. But I'm thinking there has to be something that makes more sense. Suggestions? Feedback? Thanks in advance for any pointers.
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