port forwarding or masquerading?
 

Hello all,

again I resort to this community for some help on "where to look", rather than a solution.
The details are as follows:

- my university subscribes to a series of online journal collections
- these collections are only accessible through any of the university's IPs
- I'm at home now (100km away), but I can access the student servers through ssh, and we're allowed to run X applications


I did manage to access the collections by ssh'ing to one of the machines and executing a mozilla browser. The solution, as you may have guessed, is far from optimal, as instead of html traffic there's X involved - very bandwidth intensive. Even with a cable connection the latency is considerable.

Now, my idea was, "what if I can use the uni's IP, but run the browser on my machine?". Since this is not really port forwarding, nor masquerading, nor (hopefully!) spoofing, I didn't manage to find information on the subject.

So, I would be quite grateful if anyone could point me to resources on the matter - how to do it - or very simply why it should never be done (no point poking holes in the canvas).

Regards,

rdrs

You could use a text based web browser like links or lynx in your ssh session...

You can use Konqueror. If you enter fish://<server_ip_address> it will connect via ssh to the relevant server.

We use a program called putty (ssh for Windows) that lets you do Xwindows forwarding.

It's fairly straightforward to set up and is free to download. It has good help as well


http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Here's the website that I have for putty.