• SSH Tunneling for Game Hosting?
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So, recently I've been going to coffee shops and using an SSH tunnel to bypass their..I guess you could call it "pay-for-play" internet plans. Now, we have a security freak in the house (my father) who will NOT under any circumstances allow me to open any ports whatsoever. Now, at the coffee shops I highly doubt they have any ports open (they likely don't know how to open ports). So, if I can send requests for and receive webpages through a tunnel with no open ports, I figure I'll also be able to send requests for and receive game traffic through a tunnel with no open ports. Is this at all possible, and if so, how practical would it be?
It's very possible, but I can't imagine it being too good for your ping
I wouldn't want to host any sort of server from a wifi connection at a coffee shop, especially with other users. As for the feasibility, yeah, totally.
[QUOTE=cpf;22885862]I wouldn't want to host any sort of server from a wifi connection at a coffee shop, especially with other users. As for the feasibility, yeah, totally.[/QUOTE] He's not talking about the coffee shop
[QUOTE=PhortyTwo;22884464]Now, we have a security freak in the house (my father) who will NOT under any circumstances allow me to open any ports whatsoever.[/QUOTE] If he's refusing to open ports under and circumstances, he's not a security freak. Having open ports only matters if something exploitable is listening to the connections coming in, so he's a moron. That said, if you use a crappy ssh server you might have problems, or if you use a weak password (I would not actually recommend using a key for this, unless you can force it to use a password as well: You would probably have to carry it on a usb stick, and depending on the permissions, you COULD give someone who takes that (and knows how to use it) root or admin permissions on your computer. Or alternatively, if it's just to bounce your connection, simply make it so the account you log in to only has permissions to access addresses outside of your network.
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