On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Dave Dash wrote: > Well what'd be supercool is somewhere where I wouldn't even need to > change my ports in my programs to all be localhost:somelocalport > > Like VPN or somethign. > You can setup a ppp over ssh VPN connection. I use this all the time and it works great. Sure there is extra overhead, but for ssh or imap traffic, it's fine. The Firewall Piercing Howto has a nice example. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-Piercing/x189.html#AEN204 Then just add some entries to your /etc/hosts and you are set. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list