Help with SSH2 and tunneling X?

Kevin Buettner wrote:

> SSH can be made to do what you want. In fact, usually you get
> secure X port forwarding with very little work whatsoever. I

It works great with no tweaking as long as I've got a real
IP address on this side.

> have a hunch that the configuration on one side or the other
> has been changed to either make it harder or to out and out disallow
> it.
Could be, I set it up ;-)

> Keep in mind VNC too. (Which can also be tunneled through ssh.)
I tried it for accessing Winblows remotely and was really
frustrated at the instability. I've used VMWare to run
Win95 on a work machine from here. It works great but
_really_ sucks bandwidth.

> Also, you can set up a PPP tunnel through ssh to create a true
> VPN. I've played around with this sort of thing in the past
> and it's really cool, but there can be some performance problems.

I'm going to try a PPP tunnel with VTUN next. It's pretty
easy to get going and can do compression. If I spend some
time reading it'll be a good solution. My problem is that
I'm not up to speed on setting up routing - I've been
exclusively a VMS/Netware weenie up 'til a bit over a year
ago. Since I sit within whispering distance from our
network manager I've never had a need to learn about it
until now.

Today's "wife birthday activities" so maybe I can flail at
it late tonight / early tomorrow.

Steve

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Now I'm eating bugs and berries, and if the park ranger
doesn't find
me soon I'm a dead man.