<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Hello pidgin developers,<div><br></div><div>great work so far!<div>Imagine 2 pidgin clients talking to each other behind several layers of</div><div>restrictive and unfriendly NATs and firewalls. The only good news is they can still talk </div><div>to each other and transfer files.</div><div>If PORT1 on client1 may be forwarded to PORT2 on client2 over pidgin then a slow </div><div>VPN tunnel may be built on top of this primitive infrastructure immediately.</div><div>My question is whether ssh style port forwarding is possible over pidgin?</div><div><br></div><div>example of ssh port forwarding that solves my problem</div><div>(which doesn't work in symmetric/etc. NAT scenarios obviously)</div><div>client1$  ssh -L33111:10.11.12.13:33111 client2</div><div><br></div><div>Here the local VPN daemon connects to 127.0.0.0:33111 which ssh forwards to remote</div><div>VPN daemon on port 33111 and tunnel is established.</div><div>Sadly ssh falls severely short of the pidgin capabilities where remote communication is</div><div>concerned.</div><div>Danke schoen...</div></div> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. <a href='http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/' target='_new'>Get it now.</a></body> </html>