Re: Tunneling through ssh

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 07:57:45PM +0500, Dev Null wrote:
> I am part of a LAN and I connect to the Internet through a gateway.
> Currently my traffic e.g. smtp, ftp, pop3, etc. goes through the
> gateway in cleartext. However, I would like to tunnel ALL my traffic
> through ssh through that gateway. I do not have another system
> connected to the Internet on the other end i.e. outside of my LAN.
>
> Are there any public systems or services which can accept the tunneled
> traffic and then route it to appropriate  destination.

If so, would you really trust it any more than you trust your current
gateway?

If you have this level of paranoia, your best bet would probably be to
spend some money and get a dedicated host in some sort of colocation
facility.  I don't know what the current pricing tiers are, but you
probably don't need a lot of bandwidth.

(You do realize that all the protocols you named will then go in cleartext
over the public internet once they leave the endpoint of your tunnel,
right?)