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Reverse SSH Tunneling

I have a small auto shop and having Internet access there comes in handy when I need to find auto-related information, order parts or just surf the web and do some email. Until recently, I've used a EVDO modem and got 10x dial-up speeds, but at $65 a month, it just got to be too great an expense for such low speeds. My next-door neighbor came to the rescue and allowed me to share his fiber-optic Internet access via a wireless connection. But that arrangement came with a downside. Previously, I left the EVDO connection open and could ssh into my work computer (all my systems run Linux). But now I had no access to his router/firewall and when I asked my friendly neighbor about port-forwarding an ssh connection, all I got was a blank stare. Luckily, Jason from my TWUUG group suggested tunneling over ssh , diagrammed in the image above. This is how it's done. On my shop computer, I run: $ ssh -R 2222:localhost:22 hoyt@home.ip.net and then on my home computer, I run: