Help with SSH2 and tunneling X?

[Michael Dearman]

Hey Steve,
Sorry, can't help on the tunneling.
I ain't real bright, but I have read a couple of hacking/cracking
books and giving specific info like below might not be the safest
thing to do.

M. Dearman

foodog@uswest.net wrote:
> 
>   By way of introduction, I've been to two meetings but I'm
> new to the list.  (howdy, KevinO)
> 
>   I'm on a quest to access machines at my work securely from
> home over a public VDSL connection.  I'm sick of battling
> VTUN* so I've settled on tunneling X through SSH2.  That
> works relatively dandy from my firewall but I'd much rather
> use my main box which is on my home subnet.
> 
> To get the X traffic to come through I'd have to set my
> DISPLAY variable correctly and/or find out how to do some
> sort of trick network address translation.
> 
> I tried 'export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0.0' just to see if masq
> could handle it - I also tried setting it to my firewall's
> address.  Anyone have a suggestion on how to proceed?  I'd
> appreciate it a lot :-)
> 
> For the sake of discussion, this is my network
> configuration:
> 
> firewall: VDSL connected to eth0, addr 247.123.45.67 via
> DHCP
> firewall: hub connected to eth1, addr 192.168.0.1 mask
> 255.255.255.0
> FavoriteBox: connected to hub, addr 192.168.0.2
> WorkBox: addr 141.190.8.55, static address
> 
> ip forwarding and ipmasq work on the firewall. Everyone
> involved is running Redhat 6.2 and latest SSH2.
> 
> * in a perfect world I'd be able to create a "type ether"
> tunnel using vtun so I can move IPX/SPX as well as TCP/IP
> via USWest's network.  I can establish the tunnel OK but
> getting my traffic routed through it isn't what I'd call
> "obvious"...
> 
> TIA,
> Steve Smith
> 
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