[p4] p4win / p4web via SSH...

[David Jones]

On Jan 23, 2004, at 08:17, Gutschner, Marc wrote:
>
> Currently, our Perforce server is on the company's internal net. This 
> internal net is shielded from the Internet by two firewalls (one 
> external, one internal) with most of our other servers (Exchange, 
> File-Server, etc.pp.) between them in an DMZ. At this point of time, 
> it is not an option to put the Perforce server in the DMZ, so all 
> access has to be somehow "tunneled" from the external firewall through 
> the DMZ and the internal firewall to our Perforce server...
>
> Now, I've skimmed over the documentation on www.perforce.com and came 
> across a section in the Administrators Guide that deals with running 
> Perforce through a firewall. This Document seems to imply that running 
> the "standard" Perforce client through a SSH tunnel is rather 
> "trivial". Now, does this setup work for a Web client, too? Has anyone 
> out there implemented such setup and are there any caveats or pitfalls 
> to watch out for?

As long as you can get SSH working there is nothing really special you 
have to do with perforce.  Just setup a local forward on a port you 
like that forwards to the real perforce server and port.  I use SSH on 
my MacOS X laptop.  Here's an extract from my .ssh/config:

Host ssh.ravenbrook.com raven ravenbrook
HostName ssh.ravenbrook.com
LocalForward 11666 perforce.ravenbrook.com:1666

Once I've connected (to ravenbrook) with SSH I can point my perforce 
clients at localhost:11666, which I do by putting P4PORT=11666 in my p4 
config file.

I run this over a DSL line, about 512Kbps, and the performance is fine; 
obviously large syncs take a while, but they pretty much max out the 
bandwidth so I have no complaints.

David Jones
Ravenbrook Limited