Re: tiscali dsl flat: ports are blocked, can I tell server to fetch packets for me instead?

From: Visvanath Ratnaweera (nospam_at_mydomain.xx)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 22:57:23 +0100

Hi

ludwig wrote:
>
> im using a tiscali flatrate (soon), and ive heard that certain ports
> that are important for filesharing are blocked.
>
> i have access to a remote linux server by ssh. can i tunnel the
> affected ports to this server, telling him 'somehow' to route the
> packets for my filesharing?
>

Can you tell us the port numbers in question? I use a tiscali
connection here in Switzerland. So far I haven't encountered
such a problem.

Visvanath.

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