James Knott 12/20/13 3:07 PM >>> John Andersen wrote: This is why Greg's suggestion seems to hold the most promise.
Its clear that the cloud machine that Greg mentioned is going to need to be reachable, but it appears like neither of the two endpoints of the ssh >>connection need public ips. This is classic firewall piercing, like Skype has done for years.
In another note, I mentioned OpenVPN. This will also work. It uses UDP, though, IIRC, it can also be used over UDP. With it, he starts it before he leaves and you have a network connection between his computer and your home network.
In case my reply got missed earlier - My ISP at home is a small-town one and only hands out NATed IP addresses, so I'm in basically the same situation. I use LogMeIn Hamachi, and it works fine for this. For openSuSE, I've used it on oS 12.1 through 13.1. Only thing is I couldn't use the latest version of the Linux client (wouldn't work, but I don't remember what the exact error message was); ended up digging up version 2.0.1 on the interwebs and it's worked fine :) If you need RPMs, shoot me a direct message and I'll try to get them to you. They also have Mac and Windows clients. If you use the free version, you're limited to four incoming connections; if you need more than that, I think it's like $20 a year or something like that. I use it for two things - one is for hosting a Minecraft server for some of my friends and I to use, the other is to be able to access my OwnCloud server when I'm away from home. Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org