most of the IM's today will try first it traditional ports, then 80, then 443, then 23 , then 25. Not using some tunneling of forwarding mechanism like ssh, just a single connection trough this port. I know ssh could forward ports, but in this case, you need the other end where to forward the port :) On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:54, Antony Stone wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2004 4:38 pm, Alexis wrote: > > > using port 80 may work too. > > But SSH is designed to support port forwarding - it's part of the standard > operation. On port 80 you'd have to come up with some mechanism of your own > and make it work. > > Antony. > > > On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 13:15, Antony Stone wrote: > > > On Friday 16 January 2004 4:01 pm, Benjamin Dickgiesser wrote: > > > > It would be realy nice if someone could help me with this: > > > > > > > > Situation: > > > > I am useing a Windows XP PC at a student hall. To connect to the > > > > internet I am useing the university connection. Unfortunatly there are > > > > only around 5 open ports (80,21,22,23,6667). > > > > My aim is to make a work around to this firewall. > > > > > > I'm not sure that's an appropriate quesion to ask on a security mailing > > > list, but I guess you're right in assuming that this is a place to find > > > people who know how to do it :) > > > > > > Anyway, my answer to your question is: why not just tunnel the protocols > > > you want through SSH port forwarding? > > > > > > Antony -- Alexis <alexis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
