[rescue] how to use a NAT/PAT to forward SSH to an internalbox

[Steve Sandau]

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 
> [ On Sunday, January 6, 2002 at 00:21:52 (-0500), George Adkins wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] how to use a NAT/PAT to forward SSH to an    internalbox
> >
> > Yes, if you run with the "Wrapper script" idea, you can have it make contact
> > with the server side on an high port number, and then not interfere with
> > regular port 22 connections to the translation box.
> > I wonder if the "proxy" part would work as a script, of it would need to be
> > more sophisticated...
> 
> It matters not how you manage to tell the client to use a specific port
> to connect through to a given internal host.  There are an almost
> infinite number of ways to do the mapping, and a very large number of
> them are even practical.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Nicely worded. ;)

> 
> The simple answer is to supply a table of host/port mappings right
> inside the client wrapper script:

Nice script, too. Thanks. I may even try it out...

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