Jean-Pierre Radley schrieb:
> 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.
That's what I wanted to do with HoneyDanBer. But it seems not possible?
So I will have to compile Taylor UUCP 1.07 on monday - are binaries for
sco unix available somewhere?
>
> 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.
>
interesting. Do you use sendmail or mmdf?

Regards,
Andreas Kohl