[omniORB] Negotiating firewalls and ssh connections

[Harri Pasanen]

Hello,

I've been playing a bit with ssh tunnelling and bidirectional GIOP, 
with rather weak results for the moment.

I suppose I'm lacking the low level details about ports being opened 
and in which order to make this work.  

As far as GIOP goes, it seems that in addition to omniORB 
configuration bidir specifier for the server and client transports, 
it requires a POA policy that the omniNames does not implement.   
Would there be any harm in enabling that by default?  So that testing 
GIOP would only require configuration changes, and not recompilation 
of binaries?

As to making callback object work via ssh tunnelling, I'm still 
thinking that it should be possible with a correct incantation of 
-ORBendPoint and -ORBendPointNoPublish in combination of ssh -L and 
-R tunnelling switches.  Or is there something I'm missing?
If not, an example would be a time-saver.

Regards,

Harri