making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

[Elliot Finley]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions... It looks like I have
several good options.


On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:40:24 -0400, you wrote:

>I believe the stunnel application is made to manager and restart
>tunnels like this. However stunnel is a wrapper application around
>reverse ssh tunnels, which someone has already mentioned.
>
>You may want to run your ssh server on tcp https 443. Because some
>firewalls will block outgoing things. SSH server on 443 looks like a
>secured web site to almost all packet inspecting engines.
>
>On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Paul A. Procacci
><pprocacci at datapipe.com> wrote:
>>
>> Elliot Finley wrote:
>>  > Hello all,
>>  >
>>  > I have an interesting project.  I have several FreeBSD servers that I
>>  > will be deploying to remote locations.  They will be sitting behind a
>>  > NAT.  I would like them to make a SSH connection to a local server
>>  > sitting on a public IP.  I need them connected in a way that will give
>>  > me remote shell access.
>>  >
>>  > Has anyone done this before?  I'd rather not re-invent the wheel.
>>  >
>>  > TIA for any pointers.
>>  >
>>  > Elliot
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>>  I've been using vtund for just that.  Simple, easy, effective....just
>>  another option of course.
>>
>>  ~Paul
>>
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