On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Ray Arachelian wrote:
OS doesn't really matter, as it is a hypothetical system, but we'll assume either some form of unix/linux, or perhaps winNT or novell NetWare.
Can NFS under solaris or linux be tunneled through SSH? That would seem feasable (that is if you can get SSH to tunnel a UDP...)
I think SSH will not tunnel UDP, and TCP NFS for Linux and Solaris (?) is not reliable. I would lean towards SSH in rcp-style mode: for a continent-wide link you will probably find the performance of batch-style transfers more enjoyable than that of a remote file system system. SSH also very neatly lets you run remote commands and so on. (Enough, already...)
If not, you could use microsoft's PPTP, but I wouldn't trust its cyphers.
Don't touch it. ::Boots