Re: Has anyone asked Comcast to stop blocking inbound ports?

["Bill Horne-12" <user=1521@nabble.blu.org>]

 Grant M. wrote: 
> Bill Horne wrote: 
>>   1. Start the VNC viewer from a command prompt with the --listen 
>>      switch, and specify a port number in the 40,000+ range. 
>>      C:> vncviewer --listen 45500 
>>   2. Configure your router to translate a high port down to 5500, and 
>>      forward it to your PC. 
> And: 
>     3. Tunnel port 5900 over SSH (actually the best option): 
>           ssh -L5900:localhost:5900 <server_ip> 
>        and then you just do "vncviewer localhost:0" 
> 
> That will tunnel all of the traffic for vnc through ssh. Note: If you 
> have vncserver running on your local machine, you'll have to change 
> the first number to a different display (at least I think it's the 
> first number), and then connect to that display number (for instance, 
> if you change it to 5901, then you'll connect to "localhost:1" 
> 
> Grant M.