connecting from the office to my home *solution*

[John Gray]

Do you think they can they tell the difference in their scans as to whether my
traffic is HTTPS or SSH, or would it all look the same to them?


------ Original Message ------
Received: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:31:27 PM EDT
From: "Collins, Kevin  [MindWorks]" <KCollins "at" chevrontexaco.com>
To: "John Gray" <johngray "at" usa.net>, "Scott C. Best" <sbest "at" best.com>,   "John
Aldrich" <JAldrich "at" covista.com>,   "Angelo Sarto"  <angelosarto "at" gmail.com>Cc:
vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: connecting from the office to my home *solution*

> If they are monitoring to that level, it will probably look like you are
> doing a lot of HTTPS traffic to them. As both (HTTPS and SSH) are
> encrypted, there's nothing much for them to see but byte counts...
> 
> Kevin 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Gray [mailto:johngray "at" usa.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:22 AM
> To: Scott C. Best; John Aldrich; Collins, Kevin [MindWorks]; Angelo
> Sarto
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: connecting from the office to my home *solution*
> 
> Thanks guys!
> 
>   Okay, so, I setup an SSH server at home, and am using PuTTY at work to
> create a tunnel.  I had to use port 443, as port 22 is blocked.  Seeing
> that I
> had to use a tunnel, I decided to use RDC instead of VNC.  Viola!  It
> works
> like a charm.  Both RDC and VNC work great through the tunnel.  
> 
>   One last question: Anyone know if what I'm doing will look suspicious
> to
> network security and raise a flag, or will it just look like normal
> traffic?
> 
> Thanks again,
> John
> 
> 
> > 
> > On 5/3/05, John Gray <johngray "at" usa.net> wrote:
> > > Setup:
> > > 
> > > Home - WinXP Pro SP2 w/ RealVNC 4.1.6 Service via broadband router
> > > Office - WinXP Pro SP2 via large corporate LAN
> > > 
> > > Test:
> > > 
> > > Everything works fine connecting from a friends house.
> > > I can telnet my home from the office on the VNC port.  It connects,
> > > however no RFB response.
> > > 
> > > Problem:
> > > 
> > > Using Client - After entering the server name, and clicking [OK],
> > > I get "read: Connection reset by peer (10054)"
> > > 
> > > Using Web - After entering the server name, and clicking [OK], I get
> > > "rdr.IOException: java.net.SocketException: Socket read Failed"
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