I’m on my way to Access 2007  in Victoria, BC.  The library is very generous with travel funds, but doesn’t pay for internet access by the rank and file.  Now that many hotels charge around $20 USD per day for wireless, I’ve had to work around the obstacles.  I discovered Ping Tunnel not long ago and this is my first opportunity to test it.  It’s pretty easy to configure except for IPTables firewall rules to allow ICMP traffic without allowing other junk.  Anyway, by using SSH to create an encrypted tunnel to the server I can use any application over the ICMP tunnel at pretty respectable speed.  SSH -D 8080 localhost -p 7777 creates a SOCKS 5 proxy connection that I can use to route traffic through.  Very nice!

Tags: linux, open-source, ubuntu

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