[p4] client on secured network

[Simon Timms]

We have a similar set up to this at my work.  I would suggest using ssh
tunnels, something in the form of

ssh userName at homeMachine -C -L 9090:homeMachine:1666 

on the school machine.  Will set up a tunnel to your home machine on
local port 9090.  So you just need to change your P4CLIENT to point to
localhost:9090 rather than homeMachine:1666.

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Vance
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:17 AM
To: Samuel M T Ehrlichman
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] client on secured network

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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