NYCPHP Meetup

[Dan Cech]

Craig Thomas wrote:
>> On 11/11/06, Peter Sawczynec <ps at pswebcode.com> wrote:
>>> I am moving from NYC to Tampa, Florida Gulf Coast area in several days.
>>> I'll be mobile, on the road for 2-3 months till I set permanent new
>>> home/office.
> 
> Enjoy that sun for the rest of us (:
> 
>>> Have you experienced whether one can use FTP clients for normal anonymous
>>> FTP?
>>> Telnet, WinSCP, putty and Windows Remote Desktop?
>>> Will these work through these service interfaces?
> 
> As no one else seemed to, I'll mention server firewall rules as a 
> possible impediment. While Starbucks (or whoever) may not filter your 
> traffic, lots of  servers will have a restriction on which IPs (and 
> sometimes even MAC addresses) can even connect to them...just something 
> to think about.

One simple way around that is to use a server you own as a bastion host,
and connect from there.

If you wanted you could also set up a vpn from your mobile workstation
to the bastion host, which would have the added advantage of encrypting
all your traffic.

Dan