Penguins-On-Hudson

Linux & F.O.S.S. in the Hudson River Valley.

Penguins-On-Hudson is an advocacy program sponsored by Codefix Consulting to help promote Linux and F.O.S.S. (Free Open Source Software) in the lower Hudson River Valley.

Archive for October, 2008

OpenSSH: Proxy Connections

Friday, October 17th, 2008

prerequisite concepts: prelude, basic configuration, port forwarding
Network address translation (NAT) is a very common method of providing secure access to hosts on a private network. Given the limited amount of IPv4 addresses, computer networks with relatively few, very few, and even a single public IP address are common. A typical small business customer of […]

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Open SSH: Port Forwarding

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

prerequisite concepts: prelude, basic configuration
Port forwarding is a versatile feature which informs several popular concepts, including X Forwarding and tunneling which are briefly explained below; more advanced port magic will be addressed elsewhere.
X Forwarding
At the end of the previous installment of this series is an example SSH client configuration file, usually located at ~/.ssh/conf; […]

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I have seen the light.

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Having discovered the advantages of รก la carte VoIP pricing, I pondered how to extrapolate my experience for general discussion while avoiding the pitfalls of interpolation and abridgement. The Reference Book of Rates, Price Indices, and Household Expenditures for Telephone Service published by the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau provides a rough estimate of wireline telephone […]

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