Patrick,
I would recommend first consulting with the firewall administrator, as
setting up tunnels through firewalls is not always regarded by security
admins as a friendly action. It may even be against your corporate
policy.
: I'm totally new to this mailinglist so I apologise for all and any
: profoundly stupid questions that I ask, but I haven't found what I was
: looking for anywhere else.
Here's an example of using GRE tunnels ("ip tunnel"):
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.tunnel.gre.html#AEN333
: I have one computer that sits behind a firewall and another computer
: with a public IP-address outside the firewall. I would now want to set
: up an ip-tunnel between these two so that they can communicate
: "transparently".
If you need any sort of generic tunnel through which the two hosts can
communicate, you can also consider CIPE.
: I'm desperate for this information as I _need_ to be able to access the
: computer behind the firewall from the the one with a public ip.
Have you thought of using ssh port forwarding?
-Martin
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