[p4] client on secured network

[Stephen Vance]

It's very easy to tunnel Perforce using ssh port forwarding. This is 
pretty straightforward. Also, it's very feasible to tunnel it over SSL 
using stunnel. I'll leave this as an exercise for the reader. :-)

Steve

Samuel M T Ehrlichman wrote:
> Hello all.  I am a graduate student who has been using the 2-user  version
> of Perforce to manage files between my home and office
> computers.  I run p4d on a small Linux box in my home.  Everything has 
> worked swimmingly up until last month, when the administrators for the 
> network at our department got paranoid and decided to block most traffic 
> to and from the network.  Currently, email, http, and ssh work, but not 
> much else does (e.g., no ftp, no ping or tracert, etc.).  Needless to 
> say, p4 does not work anymore either.
>
> Does any of you p4 experts know a way I can continue to use p4 from the 
> office under the circumstances?  Can I get the client to use http 
> tunneling or something like that?  (The documentation regarding ssh 
> tunneling seems to focus on the situation where the *server* is on a 
> secure network, which is not the issue here.)
>
> If I need to ask the administrators to make changes, what would be the 
> likely minimal change that would get things to work?
>
> Thanks so much.
>
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