OnionCat -- An IP-Transparent TOR Hidden Service Connector

Bernhard Fischer bf at abenteuerland.at
Thu Jun 26 07:34:04 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:16:12AM -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> > Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 24 June 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> > >>My hope is to use OnionCat on my laptop to VNC via TOR to my home
> > >>computer using nomachine NX. Is that kind of use possible with OC?
> 
> ....
>
> > Using the "phone home" example above, is there any way that my home
> > computer could go out to the general WAN and access non-TOR, non-OC
> > resources? IIUC, the TUN device means that my computers can only connect
> > with each other!? i.e. can I also somehow connect out on eth0 while
> > maintaining an OC/TUN connection?
>
> You should be able to connect to your machine over SSH via Tor, and then
> connect out from that machine normally.

Yes, that's a good solution.
Direct connections through onioncat currently don't work because it does not 
route packets.

Bernhard
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