SSH tunels with iChat and Colloquy
University`s internet connection sucks. The only open ports are 22,80 and 433. I wanted to have access to jabber and IRC but those ports are blocked. Solution? - SSH tunnels and some scripting to switching it on and off quickly. (This is just setup for iChat and Colloquy, not a ssh-tunnels tutorial!
Requirements
All you need is server with ssh on port 22.
Setup
iChat
I created two accounts in iChat with the same login but different server settings.
First one has localhost and port 8000, and other one with MY_REAL_JABBER_HOST and MY_REAL_JABBER_PORT.
Colloquy
Again, I created two connections.
One for localhost and port 7000, and second for irc.freenode.net and 6667. (You can use any server you want)
Scripting
You need to set up ssh tunnels. I do it with
And the last one - AppleScript.
Just save those files as enable-tunels.app and disable-tunels.app and you`ll have quick access to them via spotlight.
