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 > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss