Bill Campbell typed (on Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:18:00AM -0800):
| On Thu, Feb 16, 2006, Andreas Kohl wrote:
| >Hello,
| >
| >Is it possible to configure UUCP (from OSR5 or Unixware) to connect over
| >a ssh connection?
|
| Somebody besides me an JP that's still using uucp :-).
|
| You can certainly use ssh port forwarding to do this. Every time
| I have to do something like this I have to RTFM a bit to remember
| how it's done.
|
| The easiest way to handle things like this is often to use VPN
| appliances like the LinkSys BEFVP41. These make it easy to
| create IPSec tunnels between systems, independent of the OS of
| the machines on the private network. They're cheap, easy to
| configure, and generally pretty reliable.
|

As Bill say, this is totally feasible.

I install Taylor uucp, which is really a big improvement over HDB uucp.
For one thing, Taylor's 'i' protocol does bi-directional simultaneous
transfers, rather than the old "my-turn your-turn" of classic HDB.

Taylor uucp allows piping the local uucico through the local ssh to the
remote's sshd to the remote's uucico.

I've set up one customer so that all of the transfers between the sites
do not talk directly; instead they each contact a firewall, letting
uucp's store-and-forward capability really shine. The reduction in
overseas long-distance charges was dramatic, and the speed increase
compared to modem connections was also amazing.

--
JP
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