Comments on: Secure travelling with ipfw on OS X?

By: karl

karl — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:37:44 +0000

Maybe another option would be to use pop3s?

If yes, you may try to tweak “Read local Unix mail in Mail.app”,

https://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1392

cheers

By: kjusupov

kjusupov — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:07:38 +0000

@byte: actually the same issue… I don’t wanna change my mail settings everytime…

By: byte

byte — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:35:37 +0000

@kjusupov: It can be done, if you configure your mail client to point to localhost:1234 (for example), and then do an SSH forward. This implies that you will always have to start up an SSH tunnel to collect mail, even when you’re on say, wired Ethernet

HTTP? Easy. ssh -D is your friend. I’ve blogged about this before… SOCKS proxy works like a charm.

Its just rewriting instances of mail.some.server to localhost:port, because I don’t want to change the settings in the mail client everytime..

By: kjusupov

kjusupov — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:26:28 +0000

@byte: yeah, same problem with me… I got wifi around my place, and would be cool to have all my mail traffic (maybe even some of http) go through ssh…

By: byte

byte — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:38:34 +0000

Thanks James and Matt. I am seriously looking at the Air because its lightweight, and it runs OS X… good for laptop use. I’m tired of suspend/resume woes, non-working wireless on occasion, and the presentation hell of various projectors.

By: byte

byte — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:37:32 +0000

@kjusupov: The tunnel itself is no problem… that can be done. its the ipfw part, which I can do easily in iptables, but am wondering how to do so in ipfw…

By: kjusupov

kjusupov — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:56:08 +0000

Seems that the author is trying to address the similar problem…

http://www.applematters.com/article/using-ssh-secure-tunnels-for-the-common-man-part-i/

By: James

James — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:09:48 +0000

As well as the X300, you might want to look at the Toshiba Portege R500.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:34:16 +0000

If you are looking at the SSD Mac Air ( http://store.apple.com/133-622/WebObjects/australiastore.woa/9284021/wo/P16kZB5H7TjL23pQNJIXPmEmW5b/2.?p=0 ) — and I would over a very slow 4200RPM based disk, you may wish to consider an IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X300. ( http://www-604.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=10000036&catalogId=-36&langId=36&categoryId=4611686018425111790&seriesid=2060574&referer=4611686018425096207&productId=4611686018425491953 )

Why? It’s got everything the MacAir does… (small, light, SSD) and even better comes with an Ethernet port (which the Mac Air doesn’t!)

It’s also quite a bit cheaper. (Around $540 AUD ).

Only downside — the MacAir ships with a 1.8Ghz chip, whilst the X300 ships with a 1.2Ghz CPU. (Both are Intel Core Duo 2s).

However, you can use Linux on the X300 (it works extremely well like almost every Thinkpad). So that is a big plus. :)

Food for thought. :-)

By: byte

byte — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:27:38 +0000

Hi anonymous!

I was hoping someone had a solution that didn’t involve me reading a man page and actually futzing with options…