[KLUG Members] how can I get around a port block to setup vpn?

[Tony Gettig]

Quoting Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com>:

> I am wanting to setup a vpn between work and home.  At work our
> internet connection goes through a firewall that I do not control. 
> They have blocked a number or ports and services.  One of them
> appears to be vpn.  Is there a way that I can setup a tunnel through
> the firewall to home that would get by that??  

It seems like I remember there being a way to use SSH outbound from the
corporate network, back to a home host, and keep it nailed up somehow. I've not
done this, but I want to learn it. I'll reckon be reading the O'Reilly SSH book
today now. :)

> 
> I also probably need to be able to find what ports are open through
> the firewall.  Is there a way to test that?  ICMP is blocked.  I know
> that I could use nessus if I was looking at a computer but since the
> firewall is a through point would it still work (I have never used
> nessus but am familiar with it)?

Perhaps Firewalk would work to determine this info. 

http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/


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