On Friday 16 January 2004 5:45 pm, Benjamin Dickgiesser wrote: > I don't know much about ssh forwarding, but I don't think it would be very > useful in my case. As far as I know you have to specify the server ip for a > port to forward. I want to be able to connect to any server on any port. Yes, you are correct - you have to tell SSH where to forward the port to. I thought you meant you wanted to bypass the firewall filtering and access some (specific) machines using protocols which were being blocked, but if you want to have a more general routing solution then I agree that a VPN is the way to go. Antony -- I want to build a machine that will be proud of me. - Danny Hillis, creator of The Connection Machine Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.