ssh / loopback.

[daleus]

Strange one here for you.

I am using a corporate style network which does not support UDP, this means I have had to set up a remote OpenVPN server, however one of the draconian firewall rules kills it (even though SSH on the same port works flawlessly, although I have grown tired of -D forwarding and actually want to use programs which don't support a socks proxy).

my plan nearly works.

ssh -p port -L 6666:127.0.0.1:6666 me@server

this creates a tunnel to my openVPN port, which authenticates and connects beautifully. However, the trouble comes when I enable 'Send all traffic over VPN connection' as this also tries to send 127.0.0.1 data, which obviously causes my ssh connection to die (and thus, the VPN).

TL;DR - Can I tell Viscosity to ignore 127.0.0.1?

[daleus]

oh nevermind, I think I got it. Can't believe I overlooked that.


used -L MYLANIP:6666:127.0.0.1:6666

and then added both MYLANIP to default gw and my ssh server to use that too.


Thanks to anyone who read.