[Arm-netbook] routing vpns over ssh

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

already running on port 922.  allwinner's own engineers use vpns a lot
because they need access to resources that normally aren't accessible,
so the situation's a bit different.  running over common ports, great
idea.  thx joe.

On 10/10/16, joem <joem at martindale-electric.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:50 +0000, joem wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 07:26 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> > i can't quite believe that i'm having to route my vpn access over an
>> > ssh tunnel in order to then put HTTP proxy over the VPN in order to
>> > get frickin internet access to my email and anything at all.
>> >
>> > the IP address of my server has been blocked *not* by the china
>> > government but by the cisco equipment where i'm currently located...
>> >
>> > ... which is in the lobby of allwinner's headquarters in zhuhai :)
>> >
>> > well done cisco! :)
>>
>>
>> Careful --- the great firewall of CN does not like VPNs and ssh tunnels
>> and would block the IP address which means Allwinner's IP addresss if it
>> keeps repeating the problems. So you can imagine the engineers or the
>> ISP just turned it all off to help prevent a future problem. You can pop
>> into HK for all your internet for a day, or get all your files
>> transferred to SSD and carry one of those around.
>> Also, instead of ssh, try ftp and telnet, and protocols over port 80, it
>> may pose fewer problems as its not fully encrypted communications .
>
> Just another thought - I remember using ssh over a different port number
> than 22. That worked. Then I used rsync with compression to transfer
> files because it was patient and retries and compresses.
> Try that from hotel.
>
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