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--- filer:remote [2007/08/02 12:32] – cangiani
+++ filer:remote [2023/10/09 14:28] (current) – admin
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 The firewall **does not allow to connect to a protected internal server or workstation**. Nevertheless, authorized users can by-pass this limitation by establishing a VPN or ssh tunnel.
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-Once the tunnel si estabilished, you can access your files using rsync, scp, or sftp. **No ftp** servers are disponible on our network.
+Once the tunnel si estabilished, you can access your files using rsync, scp, or sftp. **No ftp** servers are available on our network.
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-===== Tunneling using the official EPFL VPN client =====
+===== Digging the tunnel using the official EPFL VPN client =====
-The tunnel can be created using the [[wp>VPN]] client provided by EPFL which is available for official EPFL members only (see  [[http://network.epfl.ch/vpn/|here]] for more details). Once the VPN tunnel is established, your computer will appear as being withing the EPFL network and will be able to access most of the services within the school including the access to on-line journals.
+The tunnel can be created using the [[wp>VPN]] client provided by EPFL which is available for official EPFL members only (see  [[http://network.epfl.ch/vpn/|here]] for more details). Once the VPN tunnel is established, your computer will appear as being withing the EPFL network and will be able to access most of the services within the school including to on-line journals.
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 Some of our services are restricted also to machines that are not within our subnet so, for example, you will not be able to mount your home directory via NFS even if you're using the EPFL VPN client.
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 ===== SSH tunnel through our Access Servers =====
-We have few servers that can be reaced from outside the firewall. They can be used as gateways to the internal EPFL network by anyone having a valid account on our cluster.
+We have few servers that can be reaced from outside the firewall with an ssh client (see below). They can be used as gateways to the internal EPFL network by anyone having a valid account on our cluster.
 Every lab has a Access Server that should be used preferably:
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 | lthi | lth.epfl.ch |
 | lthc | lth.epfl.ch |
-| lcm  | lth.epfl.ch |
+| linx  | lth.epfl.ch |
-| licos | licos.epfl.ch |
+| smils | lth.epfl.ch |
-| algo | clusteralgo.epfl.ch |
-| arni | clusteralgo.epfl.ch or licos.epfl.ch |
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+To connect via ssh to a specific (protected) machine, you need first to connect to the access server, and then from this to your actual destination.
+Ssh can also be used to create secure tunnels for all other protocols, see [[ssh-remote:|here]] for more details.
 ==== Ssh client ====
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 The connection made by ssh protocol are encrypted, so nobody can sniff what you are doing. **No clear-text connections (telnet)** is accepted by our machines.
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-At **[[ssh-remote:|this page]]** you can find all the informations you need for connecting to the network and look at **[[sshkey:|this page]]** for a useful hint.
+At **[[ssh-remote:|this page]]** you can find all the information you need for connecting to the network and look at **[[sshkey:|this page]]** for a useful hint.
-===== Dig a tunnel =====
-Because of the firewalls the servers of EPFL network aren't directly accessible from Internet, but using the ssh protocol you can create one or more tunnel so you can connect directly from your local computer to all our server here in Lausanne. Just connect to the Access Server activating the tunnel option and you can login on the others servers of the network. look [[ssh-remote:|here]] for details.